For a more readable view with labeled companies and meaningful axes, see the positioning chart →

Exploratory map (t-SNE) · Conference map →

Company map

Every company present at four or more conferences, placed so that companies showing up at the same conferences sit near each other. Colors are clusters: groups of companies that work the same circuit.

Cluster

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1,331 companies. Dot size: number of conferences present at. Hover a dot for details and to light up its cluster; click to open the company. Showing 40 matches in cluster 12.

Selected cluster

SQLSaturday · PASS Data Community Summit circuit

Characteristic conferencesSQLSaturday, PASS Data Community Summit, Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) / Live! 360, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, SQL Konferenz, SQLBits

Top categoriesConsulting & services (11), Other software (3), Cloud infrastructure (3), Data quality & observability (2)

Companies in this cluster

12Pure Storage31 conferences
12VMware31 conferences
12Quest23 conferences
12Redgate20 conferences
12Pythian12 conferences
12Insight11 conferences
12Datavail10 conferences
12SolarWinds9 conferences
12Rubrik8 conferences
12Power BI Sentinel7 conferences
12Profisee7 conferences
12Centric Consulting6 conferences
12Datasparc6 conferences
12Dbvisit6 conferences
123Cloud5 conferences
12Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting5 conferences
12Devart5 conferences
12Fiserv5 conferences
12Idera5 conferences
12Improving5 conferences

Top 20 of 40 by conferences present at.

How to read this

The axes

They mean nothing in particular. t-SNE squeezes each company's many-dimensional footprint onto a page so that similar footprints land near each other. Neighbors are meaningful; the distance between two far-apart groups, and the left/right or up/down direction, are not.

A cluster

A group of companies whose conference footprints are alike: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Each is named after the conference that most set it apart. Clusters are computed in the full space, not from the picture, so a cluster can appear split on the map.

Method

Each company is a vector over the conferences where it sponsored (weight 2 per event) or spoke (1 per event), log-damped and TF-IDF weighted so that the ubiquitous flagships count less. The vectors are reduced with truncated SVD and grouped with k-means, picking the number of clusters by silhouette score; lookalikes are the nearest companies by cosine similarity. Only companies present at four or more conferences are included.

Clusters

20 clusters. Marker color repeats every 8 clusters, so the shape (dot, ring, diamond) and number tell them apart. Hover a card to light it up on the map.

0ODSC · MLOps World circuit53

ConferencesODSC, MLOps World, O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, Strata Data Conference, Data Day Texas

e.g.MIT, Plotly, S&P Global, lakeFS, Qubole

1AI Engineer · MLOps World circuit103

ConferencesAI Engineer, MLOps World, PyTorch Conference, Data Council, NeurIPS

e.g.OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, LanceDB, PayPal

2CIDR · ACM SIGMOD/PODS circuit59

ConferencesCIDR, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, IEEE ICDE, EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference, VLDB

e.g.Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, Snowflake

3Data Saturdays · SQL Konferenz circuit27

ConferencesData Saturdays, SQL Konferenz, SQLBits, Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, Data Platform Next Step

e.g.Avanade, Advancing Analytics, b.telligent, TimeXtender, Tabular Editor