Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes, misunderstood. Most people only retain about ...

Manufacturers are constantly balancing a complex web of functions that span product innovation, engineering, planning, production and logistics. These highly interconnected processes span across the ...

Extracting Meaning From Data Tools that persist unstructured data simply store that content without fuss. These same tools do not provide users with the data’s meaning. It is not that the meaning ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

Socrates is noted as saying, “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” This premise should dominate how mission-oriented organizations communicate with the rest of the world, but it’s ...

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Yesterday I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is “Data Science”? Data science is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on extracting meaningful insights and knowledge from ...

The fundamental data structure in a data processing system. Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by ...

Business owners use a variety of marketing strategies to attract customers and improve profits. Some methods prevail and bolster sales, whereas other methods produce minimal results. Research is a key ...