As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

What does the word “data” conjure up in your mind? Is it brush stokes, petals, or pie charts? Chances are, you picked the latter, because that is how data has been conveyed for much of modern history.

Pie charts and bar graphs may look like something out of 3rd grade math, but for business users, going from raw data to a chart that’s both useful and good looking is more complicated. But for the ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...