This blog is about an industry area that has come to be called “Big Data.” The excitement around Big Data is huge; the mere fact that the term is capitalized implies a lot of respect. A number of ...

Though the debate about open data in government is an evolving one, it is indisputably here to stay -- it can be heard in both houses of Congress, in state legislatures, and in city halls around the ...

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 ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. The emergence of business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives has placed ...

The massive amounts of data collected over time that are difficult to analyze and handle using common database management tools. The data are analyzed for marketing trends in business as well as in ...

In writing a definition for an entity, an attribute, or any other element within a database design, the desired end is a descriptive text that is clear, factual and concise. Semantics are an ambiguous ...

A computer in a network that is dedicated to database storage and retrieval. It holds the database management system (see DBMS) and the databases. Upon requests from the client machines, it searches ...

The modern business world is driven by data and some of the most valuable is customer data. Finding the best way to satisfy customers requires studying their needs and that means analyzing the data ...

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