What are NoSQL Databases?
What is NoSQL? I bet you guessed that it doesn’t use SQL, right? It is sort of right there in…
Big Data News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Big Data education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Driving Data Innovation in the City of Chicago
The City of Chicago spent several years and a considerable amount of money building a situational awareness platform called “WindyGrid”…
Letter to the Publisher
Dear Mr. Robert S. Seiner: Thank you for including me in the highly regarded IT industry premier online newsletter for data…
Big Data and Internet of Things – How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving
The Internet of Things (IoT) and ‘big data’ are the most-talked-about technology topics in recent years. Big data is characterized…
Mastering Data: An Algorithm to Clean Names
It has been a great challenge in many companies to preserve name consistency with written Latin characters in countries where…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
Data Needs to be Made Available
There is an increasing interest in data. Big Data is a concrete manifestation, but also just the tip of the…
It’s All in the Data – I’ll Take My Data Big and Smart
Everybody needs their fix … of coffee or tea that is. Your local barista knows your tastes. Personally, I am…
Pragmatic Data: Where Does Your Data Science Live?
“…with the help of the pattern language that existed in traditional society, they were able to generate a complete, living…
Invest in New but Improve Old
Executive Summary Emerging technologies like Big Data, Digital Analytics, Cloud, and so on are lucrative, but organization should take a…