Since Hillary Clinton’s spearheading of what she called a “gender data revolution” in 2014, numerous initiatives have been launched to generate more and better data on the lives of women and girls. We ...

What can big data do for health care? And does it hold the same promise of new insights that it holds for other industries? A new Optum™ infographic shows what big data is and isn’t. And it shows that ...

Since the digital landscape has become more complex, organizations need actionable data governance to make finding data easier. As a hyper flexible platform, Talend Inc. makes data accessible and ...

Improving US education requires a deliberate managerial focus on short-term outcomes for students. Unfortunately, many outcomes that accountability systems currently measure are based on data ...

A key theme that has emerged concerns the need for the public safety community to figure out ways to harness the tremendous amount of data that could be available to emergency responders. As recently ...

Human failures and limitations were no doubt a motivating factor for developing automated control systems. Control systems can act reliably, fast and effectively 24/7. Pneumatic and hydraulic ...

There has been plenty of talk in recent years about the concept of “democratizing data” – which means giving everyone in the organization, not just data scientists and IT professionals, the ability to ...

Data and metrics are critical drivers of a business's overall success. The more data streams you have, the better you can understand your customers, their needs, what works and what doesn’t. But ...

With increasing amounts of marketing budgets going toward customer and experience marketing, data is becoming a paramount asset. Beyond the numbers of attendees or tweets, it’s critical to examine how ...

Bernard Liautaud describes business intelligence (BI) as getting at a single version of the truth. This may be an elusive ideal, but even a somewhat close approximation of the truth can have a ...