Civis Analytics, Okera, Sigma Computing and Spark NLP Win at Strata Data Event

The annual event honored the best data science projects and companies from this year’s sponsors and exhibitors.

O’Reilly has announced the winners of the the Strata Data Awards, which recognize the best and brightest start ups, projects and initiatives from this year’s Strata Data Conference. This year four companies earned kudos.

Data Impact Award

Civis Analytics won the Data Impact Award for its work with the City of Houston. The company helped build a new model to improve the accuracy of calculating storm damage. The Data Impact award goes to projects that use data science and analytics to have a positive impact on society.

Most Disruptive Startup

Okera earned the Most Disruptive Startup award for its work in helping enterprises maximize their data without compromising security, governance or compliance. Private start ups fewer than 4 years old and with fewer than 100 employees and $50 million in capital are eligible for this award.

Most Innovative Product

Sigma Computing received the Most Innovative Product Award. The company provides live, interactive access to an organization’s cloud data warehouse through a spreadsheet –like interface. It enables business experts to analyze data without having to write new code.  Companies with products or services fewer than two years old is eligible for this award.

Sigma Computing also won Most Innovative Company.

Open Source Award

SparkNLP received the Open Source Award. It was recognized for its state-of-the-art natural language processing in Python, Java and Scala. Any open source project, tool or contribution that has led to a significant advance of the state of data science qualify for this award.