by James Kobielus What was most noteworthy about Marco Polo is that he eventually returned to Italy to tell his multi-decade tale of wandering the Orient. In ancient days, long-distance travel was something that few people experienced. A great many of those who attempted it didn’t come back alive, if they came back at all.…
[Editor’s Note: Thanks to Nova Spivack for this guest post. Nova is a frequent speaker and blogger as well as CEO of Bottlenose, which uses big data mining to discover emerging trends for large brands and enterprises. More about Nova can be found on his website.] 2014 was the end of an era in Semantic…
by Karen Lopez We are in the midst of planning for the Big Challenges in Data Modeling webinar series for 2015. During the past year, we talked about big data, NoSQL, making data modeling go faster, modeling subtypes..and more. I want to ensure that the topics we cover are of interest to you — not…
by Evaldo Horn de Oliveira This fall has been an exciting time with an extended European tour. The trip began with the Gartner ITxpo in Barcelona followed by visits with customers in London and Europe. It was a pleasure to see the warm reception we received everywhere we went. The topic on everyone’s mind was…
by Gil Allouche Big data, big data, big data. These words seem to find their way into every business conversation, article or forum. Almost every industry wants to take advantage of big data, and to be honest, it’s the right decision. Long story short, the ability to use large quantities of data to learn important…
by Saar Bitner I recently sat in a work meeting in which a few colleagues were presenting some statistics from the just finished quarter. Everyone had, of course, prepared a few Excel-generated spreadsheets and graphs to present. Very quickly, we realized that although every person in the room was supposedly working with the same data,…
by Michael Blaha Generally the most pressing problems for software development concern quality, time to market, and cost. If you define referential integrity (RI) in your software you can improve all three of these items. RI improves quality by ensuring that data references truly exist and cannot be dangling. RI also reduces development time and…
by Anjul Bhambhri Unlocking data to make better business decisions has become a crucial part of success across a variety of professions. In fact, 83 percent of business leaders cite big data and analytics an important part of their plan to enhance competitiveness. The rise of data and analytics in the enterprise has created a need…
Skytree, “The Machine Learning Company,” has published a technology brief entitled, “Machine Learning on Natural Language Text and Log Data.” The author of the brief is Nick Pendar, PhD, who serves as NLP Data Scientist for the company. Pendar states, “Critical business information is often in the form of unstructured and semi-structured data that can…
Registration is open! Registration is open! Registration for the 19th annual Enterprise Data World Conference and Expo (EDW) is now open. It’s one of our biggest conferences of the year co-produced with DAMA International, and this year it’s being held in Washington, DC. Register by January 23rd and save up to $300. And in the…
