If you live in the path of Tropical Storm Hilary, you may soon hear from people offering you the help you desperately need. And the rest of us are probably already being contacted by organizations raising money for disaster victims here, in Maui and in other wildfire-wracked communities. Unfortunately, some of the outreach will come from people who want to harm, not help. Online scammers are eager to take advantage of people's need for aid, as well as their desire to help. Using the internet's ability to conceal their true identity, they pose as government officials, charities and community groups as they try to collect money or sensitive personal information they can sell online.

Want to identify the best BI influencers out there? Given the explosion in ecommerce and digital transformation that we've seen over the last decade, it's no surprise that companies are now scrambling to make sense of the tsunami of data flowing in and out of their servers. Intelligent businesses need business intelligence (BI). BI, simply put, is the art of making value from that data for the business. The task of translating all of these data streams into actionable insights can be daunting for business leaders who are coming to terms with the scale of the task.

Hilary Mason is the General Manager for Machine Learning at Cloudera. Previously, she founded Fast Forward Labs, an applied machine learning research and advisory company, which was acquired by Cloudera in 2017. Hilary is the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, and is on the board of the Anita Borg Institute. Previously, she co-founded HackNY.org, a non-profit that helps engineering students find opportunities in New York's creative technical economy, served on Mayer Bloomberg's Technology Advisory Council, and was the Chief Scientist at Bitly. Hilary can be reached on Twitter @hmason and on LinkedIn.

Good examples and easy to follow.

Good examples and easy to follow.