The "data" part of the terms "data lake," "data warehouse," and "database" is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a storage repository that holds an enormous amount of raw or ...

The enterprise has been sitting on a goldmine of valuable information for several decades now, but only recently has it had access to the technology to pull it all together and make sense of it. This ...

Nancy Butler Songer discusses what children need to understand about data and computing in our complex technological world ...

No longer are we starved for intelligence; we’re overwhelmed by its abundance. What do we do with it all? Laura Gutierrez ...

Time series analytics can provide game-changing insights for the business, allowing organizations to forecast and predict the future. Extracting high-quality insight from time series data can be ...

How do we get local governments to use data to inform policy and decisions? Here is an example of how we can use data to mitigate pedestrian crashes.