Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and Ayasdi Iris continue to capture the attention of the public. One of our most recent recognized was for our innovative technology. Winning The San Francisco Business Times Tech & Innovation Award is a huge accomplishment and a true validation of the work we are doing around applying the mathematical study [...]
As the Wall Street Journal noted this past March, two and a half years ago, Dr. Pek Lum, a biologist who had spent more than a decade in pharmaceuticals, saw a stunning discovery when she met Ayasdi’s co-founders for the first time. By complete coincidence, they happened to be looking at a breast cancer dataset [...]
I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Ayasdi Knowledge Center. Using the Ayasdi Knowledge Center, paying customers are able to browse product documentation, partake in community discussions, request features, and file support tickets. The center is easy to access from anywhere on our website, just click on “Support” in the upper right hand corner. Product documentation Use [...]
Silicon Valley – From Electronic Warfare to Big Data Recently I watched one of Ayasdi’s angel investors, Steve Blank, talk about the history of Silicon Valley and how the genesis of the Valley has deep ties to the US Defense Department and Stanford University (reminds me of Ayasdi’s history). According to Steve, Defense investment was [...]
Besides a mother, gardener, Ph.D., programmer, and Senior Research Engineer, Jennifer Kloke is a colleague, and an amazing one at that. As employee number 2 at Ayasdi, Jennifer has been an extremely important part of the rapid growth of the company. That is why I was extremely excited to sit down with Jennifer to learn [...]
From MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, to SXSW, and now to TEDxSpokane, Muthu Alagappan continues to capture the attention of basketball enthusiasts around the country, and for good reason too. Over the last year, Muthu has been on a whirlwind tour around the United States sharing his breakthrough insights on the hidden 10 positions of [...]
2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo is just around the corner. With +2,500 attendees and countless breakout sessions, Bio-IT World continues to put on a world-class event year after year. This year, I am very excited about the opportunity to speak about unique patterns that we have found using Topological Data Analysis within the Cancer [...]
From the hours of 9AM to 5PM, Monday through Friday, the Ayasdi office becomes home to some of the most friendly and brightest individuals around. And with every aspect of Ayasdi built on the vision of trying to make the world a better place, every one of these individuals, from top down, plays an important [...]
Last week in GigaOM, I wrote an article that asked the Big Data industry to think differently about how it gathers insights from data. It’s imperative that we shift our thinking because the query-based approach that we’ve used for the last 40 years is not going to scale. Even though gathering and storing data is [...]
The past two months at Ayasdi has been nothing of the ordinary. On January 16th, we announced our $10M Series A funding from Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE and unveiled to the world a new approach to automatically find insights from data based on a decade of research at Stanford with DARPA and NSF. Known as [...]
