by Gil Allouche Back when big data first came on the scene it was surrounded by a lot of hype about what it was going to allow companies to do. Over the years, as more and more companies have turned to big data platforms to meet their analytics needs, a significant amount of hype has…
by Evaldo Horn De Oliveira “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” You’ve no doubt heard that adage. It dates back half a century to behavioral psychologists describing the tendency to use the tools they are familiar with regardless of their fitness for the task at hand. It is…
by Michael Blaha The UML is a popular notation for modeling software artifacts. Even though the UML was mostly developed for programming, it is also relevant for databases. This article takes a critical look at using the UML for databases. What is the UML? The UML (an acronym for Unified Modeling Language) is a general-purpose…
Did Steve Jobs Pick Low Hanging Fruit?by Janine Joseph Recently I had a conversation about how we need to “pick the low hanging fruit” for work in Data Management. By picking the low hanging fruit we can start to show quick wins that help support our efforts. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this idea,…
by John Ladley On my last blog, I received a comment that I should not call people “stupid.” To be clear, I am not calling anyone stupid. What I am pointing out is the tendency in organizations to continue to do things that just do not contribute to success, or worse, contribute immediately to failure.…
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fabulous end to 2014 and are off to a good start in 2015. We certainly have a lot going on here at DATAVERSITY, so let me jump right into the announcements. Starting today, we will be merging the two DATAVERSITY Education, LLC trade journals, DATAVERSITY.net and SemanticWeb.com.…
by Eric Franzon The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced today a new collaboration to improve interoperability and integration of spatial data on the Web. Spatial data —describing geographic locations on the earth and natural and constructed features— enriches location-based consumer services, online maps, journalism, scientific research, government administration, the Internet of Things,…
by Anjul Bhambhri This holiday season was a record-breaking year for both mobile and online shopping. According to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark, overall online sales increased 12.6 percent from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday with mobile sales up 27.2 percent compared to the same period in 2013. This booming growth in sales meant an exponential increase…
by Cathy Nolan 2015 will see increased activity by hackers and identity thieves so along with those yearly resolutions to lose weight, eat healthy, and give up chocolate, this is the ideal time to make some changes to your data privacy behavior. Use my resolutions or make your own list—but make 2015 the “Year of…
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.…
