It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

When the healthcare industry talks about data, the conversation usually focuses on interoperability and data standards. These are certainly important topics, but they don’t fully address the challenge ...

Data rarely comes in usable form. Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis are the difference between a good data science model and garbage in, garbage out. Novice data scientists sometimes have ...

There are many types of experimental methods that often use normalization to fix the differences induced by factors other than what is immediately being analyzed. In particular, normalization can be ...