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AWS Is a Money-Making Machine

Amazon’s AWS is now a $10 billion a year business -- and AWS’s data management-related services contribute approximately $1 billion annually to this total. By the looks of it, that share is poised to grow -- perhaps even explode.

Finding Value in Email Streams

Getting important information from a simple email involves more potential obstacles than you might imagine.

What Kind of Chief Data Officer Is Right for You?

Before an organization hires a CDO -- as more than 1,000 organizations did in 2015 -- it must take stock of how it generates and uses data.

Data Digest: Big Data Analytics; Unstructured Data Analytics; and Big Data and Human Management

Easy insights from big data and unstructured data, plus why using big data to evaluate a workforce will likely backfire.

Take an Inventory of Your Data Assets

Do you know what data you have available? Are you making the most of it? These guidelines for a data inventory can help answer these questions.

Taming the Wild Profusion of Data Sources

New solution Tamr learns over time; it's an intelligent midwife for data source and information discovery.

Self-Service Data Analytics Is Transforming BI

New survey links BI success and self-service data solutions.

Data Digest: The Spread of IoT, Visualization Tips, and Data Industry Challenges

Articles examine the scope of IoT expansion, offer 6 tips for better data visualizations, and explain key data challenges for 2016.

Data Stories: Life Moments and Gerrymandering

A timeline of human life, plus ending gerrymandering with algorithms.