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Data Stories: Using Pie Charts, Grid Maps, and Text Analysis

Learn about the readability of pie and donut charts, explore how to make an easy grid map, and see how to best use graph analysis on text.

Data Digest: Election Predictions Fail, Securing Endpoints, Changing Approach to Big Data

How election predictions and polls failed, avoid common mistakes in securing network endpoints, and understand the future of big data and emerging technologies.

Machine Learning Is Bringing More Intelligent Things

According to Gartner, AI and new machine learning techniques will enable a new class of intelligent apps and intelligent things -- along with the emergence of so-called digital twins.

Data Digest: Customer Security, Visibility into Security Tools, Insider Threats

Improving customer data security (while fostering a good experience), gaining visibility into infrastructure for IT security, and preventing attacks from inside your network.

From Data to Information to Actionable Insight (Part 2 of 2)

Part 1 of this series showed that data needs the context of information to be useful. Here we explain why information alone is still insufficient.

The Big Data Wave: 1980s Redux?

The RDBMS challenges of the 1980s are being replayed in the world of big data.

From Data to Information to Actionable Insight (Part 1 of 2)

Data without context lacks meaning and purpose, but how is data different from information? Defining your terms is the first step to more insightful decisions.

Data Digest: 3 Articles about IoT Botnets and Security

Mitigate future DDoS attacks by learning how manufacturers and users can improve IoT security, how Bluetooth technology may increase IoT security risks, and how IoT botnets are formed.

Overcoming Patchwork Data Prep

In their work, many data and business analysts spend the bulk of their time on data preparation tasks using a patchwork of tools. I visited with Manan Goel of Paxata to discuss how to reduce this overhead, how to weave together basic and advanced data preparation capabilities, and how analysts can be more efficient and effective in their work.