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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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2,034 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 150 matches in cluster 5.

Selected cluster

CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits · Data Innovation Summit circuit

150

Characteristic conferencesCDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits, Data Innovation Summit, The AI Summit, AWS re:Invent

Top categoriesNot a vendor (100), Consulting & services (17), Governance & catalogs (4), Other software (3)

Companies in this cluster

5H2O.ai19 conferences
5Mercedes-Benz17 conferences
5Vodafone17 conferences
5HSBC16 conferences
5Shell16 conferences
5Women in Data16 conferences
5Allianz15 conferences
5Bayer15 conferences
5Visa14 conferences
5BMW12 conferences
5erwin by Quest11 conferences
5Monash University11 conferences
5Datanami10 conferences
5Adidas9 conferences
5Continental9 conferences
5Datafloq9 conferences
5Deutsche Bahn9 conferences
5Nordea9 conferences
5Novo Nordisk9 conferences
5RMIT University9 conferences

Top 20 of 150 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

18 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.

0NeurIPS · ICML circuit138

ConferencesNeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL

e.g.Meta, Netflix, Uber, Apple, JPMorgan Chase

1MIT CDOIQ Symposium · Data Governance & Information Quality Conference circuit102

ConferencesMIT CDOIQ Symposium, DGIQ, Enterprise Data World, AWS re:Invent, CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits

e.g.Walmart, Thoughtworks, KPMG, Roche, Mastercard

2Snowflake Summit · Coalesce circuit187

ConferencesSnowflake Summit, Coalesce, Databricks Data + AI World Tour, Snowflake World Tour, Data + AI Summit

e.g.Salesforce, Accenture, Deloitte, dbt Labs, Capgemini

3PGDays & regional Postgres events · PostgreSQL Conference Europe circuit78

ConferencesPGDays & regional Postgres events, PostgreSQL Conference Europe, PGConf.dev, PGConf NYC, Postgres Conference

e.g.Aiven, EDB, Zalando, Yugabyte, Fujitsu