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Evaluating Master Data Management Technology

Choosing a vendor for master data management? Use these seven criteria to match available tools to your enterprise's needs.

Data Stories: Using Maps to Explore the Basketball Court, Global Health, and International Tax Evasion

Basketball shots, comparing mortality rates, and the Panama Papers are the highlights of data visualizations this week.

  • By Lindsay Stares
  • May 18, 2016

Data Digest: Marketing, Analytics, and Security in IoT

The spread of the Internet of Things will affect every part of your enterprise. Learn the benefits for marketing, what new techniques you’ll need for IoT analytics, and new ways to think about IoT security.

  • By Quint Turner
  • May 17, 2016

Do You Understand the Knowns and Unknowns in Your Data?

Effective data preparation depends on recognizing how to handle what we know and what we don't know about a set of data. Our goal as analytics professionals is to make less unknown and more known.

Analysis: Microsoft Extends Power BI Q&A Search to On-Premises Data

Microsoft’s decision to extend Power BI’s natural language search technology to on-premises data sources is good news for Power BI subscribers.

Relational Technology Has Staying Power

The RDBMS provides transactional safeguards and data management amenities that NoSQL database systems do not now provide -- and probably won't provide for quite some time.

Data Digest: Predictive Analytics, Politics, and Voter Data

What does a so-so economy do to predictive models? Plus one candidate says voter data is overrated.

Upside Briefing: Dell Statistica

Dell recently released Statistica 13.1. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing and a look at the idea of a citizen data scientist.

Datawatch Revamps Monarch for Self-Service Data Prep

Datawatch's Monarch 13.3 release adds new analytical functions and algorithms. It also bundles new automated data loading capabilities, along with an Angoss export function.