Lakehouses, Data Governance, & AI/ML: Key Takeaways from Data Council 2024
1upHealth, Inc.
We're redefining health data interoperability so you can acquire, manage, share + compute data with ease & speed.
Attending Data Council 2024 was truly a refreshing experience – a vendor-neutral conference unlike any other I’ve encountered recently. Connecting with passionate individuals deeply invested in the data community was inspiring. It was also a great opportunity for me and my colleagues to validate the work we’re doing to improve 1upHealth’s nextgen health cloud data platform. Here are four noteworthy topics I observed during the conference.
The Expanding Role of Lakehouse Architecture
Lakehouses are emerging and the many talks dedicated to this topic at Data Council confirmed their importance.
The lightning talk entitled “Charting the Lakehouse Trail: A Data Migration Adventure” covered the journey of migrating data to lakehouses and various things to be taken into account, including performance tuning, observability requirements, resource optimizations, and best practices for lakehouse architecture.
Another lightning talk entitled “Tackling I/O Challenges in Modern Data Lakes” focused on:
The talk “Open Data Foundations across Hudi, Iceberg and Delta” highlighted bringing in smart conversation capabilities across various table formats, like Detlalake, Iceberg and Hudi, using the apache incubator project called X-tables...
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1upHealth In The News
In a recent article, 1upHealth CTO Pieter De Leenheer discussed how "The healthcare industry is generating data at an astronomical scale, from clinical and claims to genetic and lifestyle data via wearables and other IoT devices... However, to realize its true value, all this data needs to move better across the four trillion-dollar system, and that starts with data interoperability and transparency, which are deeply intertwined through data governance and data intelligence." You can read more in the full article here.