Data democratization is an enterprise initiative to improve data-driven decision-making throughout an organization. Data democratization breaks down silos and promptly delivers data to the people who need it to make informed decisions. Data democratization has two core tenets: data access and data literacy. Both are simple in theory, difficult in practice. Data literacy is the ability to understand, analyze, interpret, and communicate with data.

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to manually label thousands of images for your project? You know the drill: endless hours looking at screens, second-guessing every tag, and facing the fear of mistakes that could throw off your entire analysis. It's a real headache. You spend more time guessing than making progress, whether trying to align your team's vision or ensuring every detail matches the client's expectations. Here's where image annotation tools step in.

Data completeness plays a pivotal role in the accuracy and reliability of insights derived from data, that ultimately guide strategic decision-making. This term encompasses having all the data, ensuring access to the right data in its entirety, to avoid biased or misinformed choices. Even a single missing or inaccurate data point can skew results, leading to misguided conclusions, potentially leading to losses or missed opportunities.

Customer care organizations are facing the disruptions of an AI-enabled future, and gen AI is already impacting customer care organizations across use cases like agent co-pilots, summarizing calls and deriving insights, creating chatbots and more. In this blog post, we dive deep into these use cases and their business and operational impact. Then we show a demo of a call center app based on gen AI that you can follow along.

It was lovely to see so many of the community and hear about the latest data streaming initiatives at Kafka Summit this year. We always try to distill the sea of content from the industry’s premier event into a digestible blog post. This time we’ll do it slightly differently and summarize some broader learnings, not only from the sessions we saw, but the conversations we had across the two days.

My first attempt to understand accessibility and how to test it started back in 2016. I was working for a company where accessibility was already an important part of the process. I was asked to perform accessibility testing on the product to determine whether we could claim to be accessible. Since it was a new subject for me, I was quite confused. Where should I start? Should I be certified to provide a proper assessment? Do I need to request assessments from third-party companies?