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 ...

Continuing its campaign to position itself as the control plan for the artificial intelligence era, Cisco Systems Inc. today ...

Arguably, the two biggest challenges in the FAST ecosystem are managing the ad experience and delivering ROI for the brands that support the platform. Evan Shapiro, CEO, ESHAP, Patrick Courtney, SVP, ...

When normalizing data structures, attributes congregate around the business keys that identify the grain at which those attributes derive their values. Attributes directly related to a person, ...

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema. It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots.

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 ...

Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word “normalization.” Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code sample and screenshots to show how to programmatically normalize numeric data for use in a machine learning system such as a deep neural ...