Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes, misunderstood. Most people only retain about ...

This article is part of the collection: Crossing the Finish Line: Stories on Student Success and What Colleges Are Doing to Get There. When students interact with digital learning environments, they ...

Extracting Meaning From Data Tools that persist unstructured data simply store that content without fuss. These same tools do not provide users with the data’s meaning. It is not that the meaning ...

Socrates is noted as saying, “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” This premise should dominate how mission-oriented organizations communicate with the rest of the world, but it’s ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. The emergence of business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives has placed ...

Yesterday I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I ...

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has ...

Unpack the complex world of customer data, exploring its various definitions, categories and the role personalization plays in its collection and use. The definition of customer data is any ...

Yes, you read correctly. “Data” and “minimization,” two words that have rarely been used in the same sentence, now represent one of the critical product design rules we must apply if we’re to build ...