The complexity of data continuously proves to be the barrier between a successful enterprise and an unsuccessful one, despite the various technologies emerging that claim to be the remedy. The ...

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

In his 1960 book Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, the critic and historian Reyner Banham presciently noted a growing chasm between technological change and the capacity of designers to ...

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Companies across every industry increasingly understand that making data-driven decisions is a necessity to compete now, in the next five years, in the next 20 and beyond. Data growth — unstructured ...