Big Data - The Stack

Turn of the century UK pols say it's time to turn NHS health data into a 'competitive asset'

"If you’re selling data to the highest bidder, the people who buy it will be those who can make the most money, not who will do the most good for the NHS..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel January 29, 2024

NHS

Palantir

News

Palantir lands £330 million NHS "Federated Data Platform" contract

"Each NHS organisation will be the data controller for their ‘federated’ platform instance. The use of the data will always remain under the full control and protection of the NHS

The Stack November 22, 2023

Snowflake

data analytics

Interviews

From roughneck to data dynamo: John Lewis’ Head of Data Products on perspective, Big Query vs Snowflake, and data ambitions

“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”

Edward Targett July 03, 2023

Snowflake

News

5 key announcements from Snowflake Summit 2023

Improved Apache Iceberg integrations (managed and unmanaged); support for containerised applications as a managed service inside Snowflake (hello, Kubernetes) and more...

Edward Targett June 27, 2023

Snowflake in Vegas: AI, Python, geospatial, and bringing apps to the data layer: A Summit preview...

Snowflake wants to be a natural home for your applications as well as data. But from unstructured data to Python integrations, challenges remain.

Edward Targett June 21, 2023

open data

News

utilities

11 UK water utilities are joining forces on Open Data as an ambitious project wins backing

"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.

Edward Targett June 16, 2023

Microsoft

data analytics

Microsoft Fabric, a new unified data platform, promises magic, but has gaps to fill...

Microsoft has released a unified data platform called Microsoft Fabric: the next step in a journey that started in 2022 with the release of its “Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform”, and an offering that Redmond says will let users get the “maximum value out of a single copy of data without...

Edward Targett May 23, 2023

Gov't lost up to £58 billion to fraud in one year, as auditors warn over data silos

Gov't lost up to £58 billion to fraud in one year, as auditors warn over data silos

HMG under-performing on data matching, intelligence and analytics

Azania Imtiaz Patel April 13, 2023

Turn of the century UK pols say it's time to turn NHS health data into a 'competitive asset'

Palantir lands £330 million NHS "Federated Data Platform" contract

From roughneck to data dynamo: John Lewis’ Head of Data Products on perspective, Big Query vs Snowflake, and data ambitions

5 key announcements from Snowflake Summit 2023

Snowflake in Vegas: AI, Python, geospatial, and bringing apps to the data layer: A Summit preview...

11 UK water utilities are joining forces on Open Data as an ambitious project wins backing

Microsoft Fabric, a new unified data platform, promises magic, but has gaps to fill...

Gov't lost up to £58 billion to fraud in one year, as auditors warn over data silos