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The Data Basis of Pokémania

The success of Pokémon Go means more than profits for the developers -- it may be the first of many ways companies exploit large amounts of location data.

Data Stories: Analytics and the Olympics

It’s just a few weeks until the games begin in Rio! Read about one company predicting the winners, see how technology has changed the ways viewers engage, and reflect on more than a century of achievement.

5 NoSQL Alternatives for Data Storage

Organizational needs are changing, and data professionals are rethinking what they really need from an analytics database. With a whole new group of leading NoSQL databases, there are alternatives for storing and managing data.

Overcoming the Hurdles of Health Data Analytics

What's holding us back from analyzing more healthcare data?

Data Digest: Help for Data Scientists, Transformative IoT, Self-Service BI Tips

Today read about supporting data scientists with other kinds of insight, examples of enterprises transforming with IoT, and important factors to consider in self-service BI.

Tunable Consistency in Cassandra NoSQL

Tunable consistency is one of the many points of differentiation between SQL and NoSQL databases. This article explains this important parameter and the tunable consistency options Cassandra provides.

Data Digest: Password Security, Unspoken IoT Truths, IoT Security Concerns

Today read about new security technologies that may replace passwords, aspects of IoT sensor data that no one talks about, and why IoT developers need to learn a different lesson from the open source community.

Top 5 Benefits for Embedding Analytics into Cloud Applications

With cloud applications becoming the de facto standard delivery model, how can we derive benefits from the data growth in the cloud?

Data Digest: New Big Data Approach, Data Science Ethics, Self-Service versus Enterprise BI

In today’s articles, read about a company with a different way of thinking about big data, 3 ethical principles for data science, and the pros and cons of self-service discovery tools.