DataOps

We’re happy to announce that Nexla will be presenting at the Startup Showcase next week at Strata+Hadoop World in San Jose! It’s an honor to be selected along with other up-and-coming big data companies. The pitch-off takes place Tuesday, March 14 at 6:30pm.

And don’t miss our CEO Saket Saurabh’s talk on Wednesday at 2:30pm in the Solutions Showcase. Learn “How to Automate Data Operations so You Can Build Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics.” Come swing by our booth in the Innovator Pavilion.

The Internet Archive, also known as the Wayback Machine, has been capturing snapshots of the World Wide Web for over 20 years. But a new effort to save a specific type of Internet content- scientific data- has emerged among some scientists and professors. Groups like the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and its offshoot Data Refuge are committed to preserving “…the facts we need at a time of ongoing climate change.”

These groups encourage others to download and store public scientific data. They’ve acted as a catalyst for groups around the country to host data meetups. At Nexla, we are committed to building tools that make it easier to collaborate with data. In that spirit, we’d like to share two of the methods we’ve found for archiving important data sets.

Film buffs will remember the above scene from Stanley Kubrick’s iconic Dr. Strangelove, in which President Muffley says, “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” The absurd, satirical line is oddly applicable to what’s happening today in machine learning teams. The machine learning folks shouldn’t be data wrangling- they should be focused on machine learning. But because we don’t often receive our data in a usable format, valuable time is spent transforming, moving, and cleaning data.