The External Data Cloud Blog

Data science’s commercialization over the last decade emphasized the science more than the data. Even as data scientists spent most of their time wrangling and cleaning data, it was their…

Whew, what a quarter! With all this heat, we decided to stay indoors, crank up the AC, and work on expanding our data catalog. We’ve made some big upgrades to…

We have access to greater volumes and varieties of data than ever before. Data streams are getting faster and bigger, but bigger isn’t always better. Data is only as useful…

Not all data is the same. It comes in all shapes and sizes – structured and unstructured, historical and real-time, spatiotemporal and more – and from a wide variety of…

Many organizations understand the value of external data, yet struggle with external data procurement. To remain competitive, organizations need a strategy for purchasing external data in order to derive the…

Unique data can drive differentiation and unlock competitive advantages for businesses today. Many organizations struggle with finding the right data among the disparate data providers and marketplace ecosystem. In  marketing,…

The core workflow for marketing and sales teams is to generate awareness and leads, which convert to sales opportunities, and ultimately revenue for the company. These are the key metrics…

What are unknown unknowns?  An unknown unknown is something you don’t know that you don’t know. The term, made famous by former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, refers…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the main driver of big data, robotics, and IoT. Still, this year, the trend is shifting to see access to external data emerge as a…