Posts Tagged ‘Data’
The Value of History
In Ireland 1922, Free State forces led the occupation of the Public Records Office of the Four Courts as part of the Battle of Dublin. As a result of the battle, there were explosions in the building and historical documents were lost to the fires. Ernie O’Malley, deemed the leader of the group, was quoted as saying…
Read MoreMajor Player in Health Data
The acquisition of Truven Health Analytics by IBM changes the playing field for cloud computing and data management in the health industry. This interesting turn of events came to our attention by Yahoo News in their post, “IBM buys Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 bn.” It is the fourth major purchase that IBM has made in less than a year…
Read MoreData Depositories Explained
A last minute educational opportunity for this week comes from DATAVERSITY and is titled, “The Heart of Data Modeling Presents: Who’s Pissing in Your Data Lake.” The new data terms of Data Lake, Data Reservoir, and Data Swamp can be confusing. The types of data anomalies that organizations can run into when they use external data could…
Read MoreUsing Semantics in Governance
Data governance requires a standards-based, semantic approach. Datanami brought us this information in their article, “A Semantic Approach to Big Data Governance.” Big data is responsible for bringing organizations to the realization that the practical value of semantics enable them to maintain and improve governance principles over unruly unstructured and semi-structured data. Semantic technologies play a…
Read MoreGathering the Big Data
Data lakes have become more common and unfortunately as data – unstructured, semi-structured, and structured – continues to multiply at a phenomenally rapid pace, they will continue to be more frequent. This interesting information came to us from DataInformed in their article, “Avoiding Three Common Pitfalls of Data Lakes.” A single repository for integration, access, and…
Read MoreManaging the Flow of Data
As more and more apps move to a cloud infrastructure, it becomes difficult to ascertain important information like data acquisition and placement. Tech Target brought this news to us in their article, “How the cloud complicates the data processing pipeline.” Cloud services have given application developers and IT architects an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility when planning…
Read MoreData and Science
The National Science Foundation (NSF) made a move regarding big data, which will not only improve our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of data, but also help accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineering, strengthen our national security, and fuel the growth and development of Smart Cities…
Read MoreWhat About the Data?
Data is so much more these days than we ever thought possible. That applies to volume, and also to the variety of data types. There is structured data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data – plus there’s big data, which isn’t exclusive of any of the other types. Forbes brought this interesting information to us in their article,…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity Addresses Data for Analytics
DATAVERSITY is offering an educational opportunity to start your new year off right. The webinar is titled, “Data Prep – A Key Ingredient for Cloud-based Analytics”, scheduled for January 5, 2016 at 2:00 pm EST and best of all – is free. Data for analytics comes in many forms, from many sources. This data holds…
Read MoreSemantic Technology and Data
The amount and level of unstructured data available to any organization today is an important source of intelligence. The term big data is thrown around a lot but at the end of the day it is the same data, just way more of it. DATAVERSITY brought this information to our attention in their article, “Using Semantic…
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