May 25, 2019 marked the one-year anniversary of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into full effect. This milestone serves as a timely reminder for any business in the EU or doing business with EU residents on both the implications of failing to protect data and the procedures needed to prevent this from happening.

For the 8.0.2 release, the team at Yellowfin have been focussed on increasing overall performance across our products and implemented some of the most requested customer enhancements to improve the analytical user experience. As it is with every release, we’ve also included improvements to reports and charts.

I love data. I live it, I breathe it and I get excited about it. Recently, I started thinking about what creates a data culture when I read the Big Data and AI Executive Survey 2019. It said that 72% of respondents were yet to forge a data culture. While every business uses data in some form, they don’t all use it to truly understand the dynamics of their business and make strategic decisions.

Talend provides a family of Machine Learning components which are available in the Palette of the Talend Studio if you have subscribed to any Talend Platform product with Big Data or Talend Data Fabric. These components provide a whole bunch of tools and technologies to help integrate Machine Learning concepts for your use cases. These out of the box components can perform various Machine Learning techniques such as Classification, Clustering, Recommendation and Regression.

Outra is a UK predictive data science business that helps companies increase the power and precision of data through a modern, science-led approach which delivers actionable insight at speed. Many of Outra’s clients have either limited or no data science capabilities in house. Outra matches its proprietary property data with client’s customer data and any relevant third-party data.