Data analysis
The process of analyzing data to discover useful information and support decision-making
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| 2025 |
Julia
Google Colab officially begins native support for the Julia programming language.
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| 2025 |
Big data
Upcoming fourth Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference planned.
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| 2025 |
Big data
IDC predicts global data volume will expand to 163 zettabytes
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| February 2025 | Cellebrite announced it would halt the use of its digital forensics products by certain customers in Serbia following the Amnesty International report about potential misuse of their technology. |
| 2024 |
Big data
Square Kilometre Array radio telescope expected to become operational, with plans to gather 14 exabytes and store one petabyte of data per day.
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| 2024 | Seven UK government agencies, including three police agencies, London's city authority, and the UK Foreign Office, signed contracts with Cellebrite, spending a total of $370,000 on Cellebrite services. |
| December 2024 | Amnesty International reported that Serbian police used Cellebrite UFED tools to bypass security on an Android device belonging to journalist SlaviĊĦa Milanov and devices of environmental activists, potentially installing NoviSpy spyware. |
| October 7 2024 |
Julia
Julia 1.11 is released, adding parallel garbage collection and introducing a new 'public' keyword to signal safe public API.
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| July 2024 | The FBI used unreleased Cellebrite technology to access the phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, successfully unlocking the device within 40 minutes using new software from Cellebrite's federal team. |
| July 2024 | Cellebrite announced the acquisition of Cyber Technology Services, a US-based cybersecurity company with federal project clearance. |
| June 7 2024 |
GNU Octave
Version 9.2.0 of GNU Octave was released.
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| March 14 2024 |
GNU Octave
Publication of Octave 9.1.0, featuring general improvements, enhanced MATLAB compatibility, and graphics enhancements.
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| 2023 |
Easystats
The easystats collection of packages received the Award from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).
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| 2023 |
Big data
Third Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference conducted.
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| December 25 2023 |
Julia
Julia 1.10 is released, featuring parallel garbage collection, improved package load times, and a new parser rewritten in Julia.
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| June 2023 |
Julia
JuliaHub received a $13 million strategic investment led by AE Industrial Partners HorizonX, a venture capital platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company.
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| May 7 2023 |
Julia
Julia 1.9 is released, enabling full native machine code precompilation for packages, potentially improving first-use performance by hundreds of times.
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| March 7 2023 |
GNU Octave
Publication of Octave 8.1.0, with further improvements to graphics backend and MATLAB compatibility.
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| 2022 |
Julia
Julia 1.8 is released with improvements in distributing Julia programs and compiler speedup.
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| July 27 2022 |
Julia
JuliaCon 2022 held virtually from July 27 to July 29, marking the first conference conducted in multiple languages, not just English.
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| April 6 2022 |
GNU Octave
Publication of Octave 7.1.0 with QT5, improved graphics backend, and enhanced MATLAB compatibility.
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| January 2022 |
Analyst's Notebook
IBM sold i2 Analyst's Notebook and other i2 products to Harris Computer Systems, a subsidiary of Constellation Software
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| 2021 |
Facet theory
Hackett published the second revised and enlarged edition of 'Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence', expanding on the theory's evolving philosophy and applications.
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| 2021 |
Julia
JuliaCon held virtually with keynote addresses from notable professors including William Kahan, Jan Vitek, Xiaoye Sherry Li, and Soumith Chintala. The conference grew to 43,000 unique attendees and featured over 300 presentations.
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| 2021 |
Julia
Federal Reserve Bank of New York used Julia to estimate COVID-19 economic shocks.
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| 2021 |
Big data
Global spending on big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions estimated to reach $215.7 billion
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| 2021 |
Big data
Founding members of BigSurv received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
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| 2021 | Cellebrite was valued at approximately $2.4 billion, marking a significant milestone in the company's financial valuation. |
| 2021 | Moxie Marlinspike publicly exposed multiple software vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's UFED and Physical Analyzer, revealing potential arbitrary code execution risks and security flaws, which prompted Cellebrite to patch some vulnerabilities and remove full support for analyzing iPhones. |
| 2021 | The New York Times reported that Myanmar's state budget included MacQuisition, a forensic software product from Cellebrite's subsidiary BlackBag Technologies used for extracting data from Apple computers. |
| 2021 | The Intercept reported that despite the previous announcement, Cellebrite was still selling software to China. |
| 2021 | Cellebrite announced they would cease selling products to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Bangladesh after a reported connection between their software and the organization's extrajudicial killings. |
| November 2021 |
Julia
Julia 1.7 is released, introducing a new faster random-number generator.
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| August 2021 | Cellebrite completed its merger and was listed on Nasdaq under ticker symbols CLBT and CLBTW. |
| July 2021 |
Julia
Julia Computing raised $24 million in Series A funding led by Dorilton Ventures, which also owns Williams Racing Formula 1 team. Williams partnered with Julia Computing to leverage its technological capabilities.
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| July 2021 | Civil society organizations signed a letter arguing against Cellebrite's public listing due to human rights concerns. |
| May 2021 | Botswana police used a Cellebrite UFED device to extract data from journalist Oratile Dikologang's phone, following a senior officer's order to search for information about 'offensive' Facebook posts, as reported by the Committee to Protect Journalists. |
| April 2021 | Cellebrite announced plans to go public through a merger with TWC Tech Holdings II Corporation. |
| March 2021 | Cellebrite announced the termination of its cooperation with Russia and Belarus following the lawsuit and revelations about its technology being used against political opposition. |
| March 2021 | Cellebrite's forensic technology aided the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State in extracting deleted WhatsApp messages in the investigation of Henry Borel's death. The extracted messages were described as 'essential technical evidence' in the case against the boy's stepfather Jairinho and mother Monique Medeiros. |
| March 2021 | An activist in Jerusalem filed a lawsuit in the Israeli Supreme Court against Cellebrite after discovering the company's UFED technology was used in the Lyubov Sobol affair to persecute political opponents in Belarus and Russia. |
| 2020 |
Pivot table
Microsoft's trademark on the term 'pivot table' in the United States expired.
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| 2020 |
Easystats
bayestestR package received a Commendation award by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS).
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| 2020 |
Julia
JuliaCon held virtually with 28,900 unique attendees.
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| 2020 |
Big data
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope expected to come online, with designers anticipating acquisition of 200 GB of data every five days.
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| 2020 |
Big data
China plans to implement a nationwide Social Credit System that assigns personal scores to citizens based on their behavior, utilizing big data analysis technology for mass surveillance.
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| 2020 |
Big data
Second Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) conference held virtually due to global circumstances.
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| 2020 |
Big data
Global data volume projected to reach 44 zettabytes as predicted by earlier IDC report
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| 2020 |
PolyAnalyst
Researchers at Vyatka State University, in collaboration with the Center for Collective Use (CCU), conducted a groundbreaking study using PolyAnalyst to identify and reach out to victims of domestic violence through social media analysis. They developed a methodology to scrape web messages, classify abuse types, and create a chatbot to refer victims to specialists, ultimately producing the first Russian-language corpus on domestic violence.
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| 2020 | Ron Serber left Cellebrite, leaving Yossi Carmil as the sole CEO. |
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