One drawback of working for so long in the data industry is that I often misjudge what people think about when they think about data. Particularly, I've observed a common misunderstanding about ...

As the great management expert W. Edwards Deming once said, “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” Obviously, data is all the rage today; it’s what makes the flashiest technology ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken huge leaps forward in the last 18 months with the development of sophisticated large language models. These models, including GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and open source LLM ...

We are living in an extractive data economy. Every day, people generate a firehose of new data on hundreds of apps and services. These data are often sold by data brokers indiscriminately, embedded ...

Data is growing at an exponential rate, with Deloitte predicting it will reach 175 zetabytes by 2025—the equivalent of one billion one-terabyte hard drives. Our expanding data stores are helping ...

Over a coffee, an executive at a major database vendor recently admitted, "Database migration tools haven't really delivered on their promise." Most practitioners would agree. After decades of ...

Alphabet; Time; Location; Category and Hierarchy. The present technologies organize quickly the first three, and there is ...

Thomas C. Redman is the president of Data Quality Solutions and the author of People and Data: Uniting to Transform Your Business (Kogan Page, 2023). Donna L. Burbank is the managing director of ...

Trust is fragile, and that's one problem with artificial intelligence, which is only as good as the data behind it. Data integrity concerns -- which have vexed even the savviest organizations for ...

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data platform ...

It’s everyone’s job to deliver great customer experiences, but data siloes often get in the way. Learn how to remove data siloes across the organization. Delivering quality customer experience (CX) is ...

Pew Research Center has a long record of studying Americans’ views of privacy and their personal data, as well as their online habits. This study sought to understand how people think about each of ...