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Abe Gong: Great Expectations assertions execute consistently across Pandas, Spark, and SQL
“The kind of guarantee is any given expectation will execute in any of those environments and it'll execute consistently.”
Delangue: Hugging Face cited in over 700 research papers over 15 months
“We've been lucky to have been mentioned in more than 700 research papers for the last 15 months”
Walle: Unacast location data is used during California wildfires to track evacuations
“Our data is being used to understand are people like trapped inside certain places because we can deliver data pretty real in real time, but also when people evacuate.”
Guo estimates the 2019 cybersecurity market at $75B to $80B
“Like, let's say in 2019, you can call it a 75 or eighty billion dollar industry, half of which is software and half of which is services.”
Perret: Plaid powers about 3,500 to 4,000 financial products
“So we power about, ah, I think it's 3504 thousand financial products on the other side.”
Perret: Most of the largest banks are Plaid customers
“Actually most of the biggest banks are our customers.”
Crisis Text Line uses machine learning to suggest real-time volunteer responses
“They have started using machine learning to suggest answers in real time to the responders of these text messages”
Stent: Bloomberg sentiment feed outputs probabilistic buy or sell signals
“So the Bloomberg sentiment feed is not just positive or negative. I like it right. It's buy or sell, and it's with probability so that you can use those in your own models.”
Fontana: Zetta was the largest investor in Kaggle when it sold
“We were the, Biggest investors in Kaggle when they sold on the board there.”
Mostak: Storage costs will drop below eight dollars per terabyte by 2020
“They're saying that by 20 20, you'll be able to buy a terabyte of storage for less than eight dollars.”
Falkowitz: Verizon report shows 50% phishing success by third message
“Verizon yearly does a breach, a report on all the breaches that they responded to, and they found that by the third message that gets sent, 50% of the success rate is, is already achieved, right?”
NYC used building water flow rates to detect illegal overcrowding
“They did things like figure out what buildings to inspect which might be overcrowding by looking at max mix-ups between the stated building occupancy rates and the water flow rates.”
42 billion customer service calls are made annually
“Forty-two billion calls come to call centers in a given year.”
Mark43 cannot legally auto-merge police records due to audit trail requirements
“Legally we as Mark 43 cannot merge those records ourselves. We have to allow a law enforcement official to do that because each piece of data entered into the system must have an audit trail that can track back to them so that this can go to court.”
Bisignano: Human genome sequencing costs fell from $3B to $1,000
“We finished the human genome, and then for the next decade, the human genome, the cost to sequence it went from three billion down to 1000.”
Bisignano: US has one genetic counselor per 250,000 people
“Right now there's about one genetic counselor for every 250,000 individuals in the U.S.”
Knaup: Apache Mesos automatically bin-packs applications to maximize cluster utilization
“One thing that Mesos does is it, you know, it automatically bin packs your applications onto the infrastructure that you have, so you get the highest utilization out of it.”
Breslow: Small business online banking adoption rose from 60% to 95%
“Even when we started OnDeck, only 60% of small business owners used online banking. Today that number's 95%.”
Nutonian's Eureqa software is cited in 80,000 independent peer-reviewed publications
“Seeing all the publications that are coming off where they're citing us in the results, so up to 80,000 independent peer-reviewed, you know, publications where we're directly citing the results of this cutting edge research.”
Lonsdale: Over 1,000 partners are building on Palantir's platform
“I think there's over a thousand partners now, actually, building on top of Palance here”
Mailchimp expects to hit 10 billion monthly emails by late 2013
“That'll probably be ten billion by the end of the year.”
Total real estate turnover in New York City is roughly $1.25 trillion
“The total overall property turnover is about 1.25 trillion, right?”
InfoChimps receives more external code commits than internal ones
“And we're getting more commits from folks outside the company now than we are from inside”
DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops
“For the technical guys in the room, moving from Protovis, which, what, which is what we've built our stuff on, and made compatible to Internet Explorer seven and eight, which is about 20% of the business traffic on the web still, ah, to D three in probably a c…”
Handy: Software engineers pushing to production grew over 10x in a decade
“The population of software engineers that exist today and push code to production applications. That has, I don't know what, oh, more than 10 X in the past 10 years.”
SourceForge adopted MongoDB before the term NoSQL was introduced
“That was actually before the term NoSQL, I believe, by about a month or two.”