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 ...

I was working with a cross-functional information technology and operational technology team from one of the world’s largest makers of home goods. We were discussing how to drive a digital ...

Have data sets scattered all over the place? Here's how to pull them into a single, robust catalog with the pointblank R package and a Quarto document. Do you have data sets scattered all over the ...

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 ...

Many factors go into choosing the right storage application and service provider to reap the benefits of storing data in the cloud. If you looked only at the string of cloud storage companies that ...

“Imagine,” he said, “you’re driving Humvee at 50 miles per hour through an area of insurgents and IEDs. A sandstorm engulfs your vehicle, visibility is near zero. What would you do?” My response was, ...

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 ...

You can prompt an AI model with a line of text, and it will generate most of the code needed to build an app, tool or website ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

We need control over how our data is used. Thanks to California, there’s a promising new path. By Shira Ovide This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...