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IBM began offering open-source alternatives within 2.5 years of Cloudera's founding
“At two and a half years, IBM was looking at what we were doing and offering their own open source alternatives, so.”
Microsoft, Google, and IBM build computational services on Jupyter
“Many, many companies are actually building on top of this platform, ah, to build out, ah, computational services, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, Continuum analytics and more.”
DataKind volunteers mapped poverty across Kenya and Uganda in two hours.
“So a team from IBM and Mozilla basically built a classification algorithm that would find the different roof types. Interesting regression model we could talk about later. But what it allowed them to do is basically build this map of roofiness be a proper stat…”