Data initiatives that increase government transparency, Google experiments with competitive AIs, and the difference between a data scientist and a data analyst.
- By Lindsay Stares
- February 21, 2017
According to TDWI research, the gender gap in BI-related fields widened in 2016. There are many reasons why women are earning less than men in these jobs.
- By Fern Halper
- February 21, 2017
At the 2017 World Economic Forum meeting, tech industry leaders openly discussed some of the ethical and societal challenges facing the current surge in big data-driven AI.
- By Barry Devlin
- February 17, 2017
Data lakes have been widely misunderstood, but they are now benefiting from new best practices -- helping organizations gain significant value.
- By Dale Kim
- February 16, 2017
How marketing might miss the point of big data, why you need to check your customer data collection policies, and how to improve cybersecurity with a change of tactics.
- By Lindsay Stares
- February 16, 2017
Do you want to present an answer or allow discovery? These visualizations about employee poaching, Trump’s business empire, and the movie industry invite exploration.
- By Lindsay Stares
- February 15, 2017
Although we may be subject to intense pressure to meet implementation targets, we should make every effort to avoid treating our user community as beta testers or supplying users with inaccurate program prompts or user documentation.
- By Mike Schiff
- February 15, 2017
It's a good time to be a data scientist. In all, four data management-related jobs cracked the top 10 of a new job satisfaction survey from Glassdoor.com.
Read about 5 potential paths to becoming a data scientist, how data science is improving scheduling for cancer patients, and how big data is being used to fight malaria.
- By Lindsay Stares
- February 14, 2017