Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Analytics

Palantir exec defends company's immigration surveillance work (techcrunch.com)
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to offer an extensive defense of Palantir’s work.

Data Analytics, Surveillance, Immigration, Business

10 points by breadwinner 5 days ago | 3 comments

Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees (cloudflare.com)
Apache Iceberg is quickly becoming the standard table format for querying large analytic datasets in object storage. We’re seeing this trend firsthand as more and more developers and data teams adopt Iceberg on Cloudflare R2. But until now, using Iceberg with R2 meant managing additional infrastructure or relying on external data catalogs.

Cloud Storage, Data Analytics, Apache Iceberg, Cloudflare

47 points by kalendos 16 days ago | 8 comments

Flexport Intelligence (flexport.com)

Logistics, Supply Chain, Data Analytics

33 points by corvustwo 61 days ago | 1 comments

From BigQuery to Lakehouse:How We Built a Petabyte-Scale Data Analytics Platform (trmlabs.com)
At TRM Labs, we provide blockchain intelligence tools to help financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud.

Data Analytics, Big Data, Blockchain, Financial Crime, Crypto

26 points by Vijayshekhawat 81 days ago | 4 comments

AI Data Agents: Why Your Business Needs Them (flowtrail.ai)
AI Data Agents are transforming how businesses interact with their data. By combining advanced analytics with conversational AI, they make it easier than ever to ask questions, analyze trends, and uncover insights instantly. Notably, 72% of organizations have now adopted some form of AI, highlighting its growing importance in the business world.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Data Analytics, Conversational AI

14 points by sidheekpk 88 days ago | 1 comments

Databricks closes $15.3B round, Meta joins as 'strategic investor' (techcrunch.com)
Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation.

Funding, Startups, Data Analytics, Social Media

4 points by lucaspauker 94 days ago | 0 comments

S3 Tables (meltware.com)
AWS announced S3 Tables yesterday, which brings native support for Apache Iceberg to S3. It’s hard to overstate how exciting this is for the data analytics ecosystem.

AWS, Data Analytics, Apache Iceberg, Cloud Storage

43 points by pongogogo 143 days ago | 2 comments

New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads (amazon.com)
Amazon S3 Tables give you storage that is optimized for tabular data such as daily purchase transactions, streaming sensor data, and ad impressions in Apache Iceberg format, for easy queries using popular query engines like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Apache Spark.

Cloud Storage, Data Analytics, Big Data

19 points by craigkerstiens 144 days ago | 3 comments

How to Flatten nested JSON arrays (datazip.io)
Flattening nested JSON or MongoDB’s BSON or normalizing semi-structured data and writing queries on it for analytics or regular queries, is a common challenge in data processing.

Data Processing, JSON, Data Structures, Data Analytics

14 points by pkhodiyar 171 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: NewsCatcher's Hyperlocal News API – Granular City-Level News Feeds (ycombinator.com)
We’ve launched NewsCatcher’s Hyperlocal News API to provide city-level news feeds for market analysis, localized apps, and data analytics.

APIs, News, Data Analytics

5 points by kizy25 172 days ago | 4 comments

Alert Evaluations: Incremental Merges in ClickHouse (highlight.io)
At Highlight, we rely on ClickHouse, an open-source columnar database built for handling large datasets and real-time analytics.

Databases, Open Source, Data Analytics, Real-time Data, ClickHouse

38 points by vadman97 206 days ago | 7 comments

Pinot for Low-Latency Offline Table Analytics (uber.com)

Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Apache Pinot

27 points by PeterCorless 239 days ago | 2 comments

Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine (dl.acm.org)