Enigma shifted from raw public datasets to building a unified knowledge graph
Hicham Oudghiri · Knowledge Graphs To Understand The World // Hicham Oudghiri, Enigma (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Dec 5, 2018 · at 3:08
Hicham Oudghiri is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, a data operationalization company. He explains why Enigma changed its approach to serving public data to customers.
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“Whereas we had exposed hundreds of thousands of data sets and told people, go at it, the reality of the matter was that, you know, we had to connect the dots in our data in the data ourselves, and we had to merge the data together to make it Into one data model, into one knowledge graph of sorts that did very fundamental things that allowed people to actually put the data to work, like resolve the entities, make sure that we could compare different data sets together.”
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