Category: Data Mining

July 9, 2019

Unstructured digital data is finally seeing its day in the sun. Relational databases and other forms of formatted and categorized data are far from obsolete, but their long reign at the pinnacle of data value is slipping. The critical measure […]

July 8, 2019

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you had to put it on a bigger […]

July 3, 2019

After exposing personal information of more than 650,000 customers, pub chain Wetherspoon decided to delete almost all the customer information it had been storing to reduce risk. After all, the data you don’t have doesn’t need to be checked for […]

June 28, 2019

When it comes to hiring data scientists, top salaries and free food may not be enough. Given the current crunch for data science talent, it might seem like the usual laundry list of startup-like benefits and perks targeted at rockstar […]

June 17, 2019

In all the excitement about NoSQL databases, distributed databases, data warehouses, and GPU-accelerated databases these days, it’s easy to forget that traditional relational databases still store and serve the mission-critical information for many, if not most, line-of-business applications. Oracle Database, […]

June 3, 2019

Apache Spark is a fast data processing framework dedicated to big data. It allows the processing of big data in a distributed manner (cluster computing). Very popular for a few years now, this framework is about to replace Hadoop. Its […]

May 22, 2019

The seemingly insatiable demand for data scientists continues to grow as organizations look for professionals who can glean insights from all the information they are gathering. In a report released in January 2019, business and employment social media site LinkedIn […]

May 21, 2019

Data analytics is a domain in constant motion. With organizations continuing to invest heavily in analytics to support digital transformations, keeping on top of the latest trends is essential to ensuring your organization is adopting the analytics strategies and tactics […]

May 21, 2019

The exponential explosion of digital data has forced researchers to find new ways of seeing and analyzing the world. It’s about discovering new orders of magnitude for capturing, searching, sharing, storing, analyzing and presenting data. That’s how “big data” was […]

May 17, 2019

In the last few years, biometric technologies from fingerprint to facial recognition are increasingly being leveraged by consumers for a wide range of use cases, ranging from payments to checking luggage at an airport or boarding a plane. While these […]