Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. A new year is a new opportunity to analyze and apply data. The new year will ring in new opportunities to become more conversant in how we use data in our everyday lives. It will be a renewed and expanded year of education: a year of connection between […]
Back to School: Data Literacy and an Urgent Reason to Study Data
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. A literate society is not necessarily a numerate one. Where one is absent, the other is almost always lacking, because it is hard to appreciate—never mind articulate—the fullness of an idea without a full vocabulary. Expanding that vocabulary must be a national priority, beginning in primary and secondary […]
Using Data to Make Better Decisions
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. Data is neither an end unto itself nor the end of anything in particular. It is instead the end of the beginning of a process, whose ultimate end is to improve decision-making and enable leaders to make the right decisions. To do these things requires perspective, so you […]
Make Space for Data from Space
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. Data from space is no longer the stuff of outer space. That is, space-based data is very valuable to a multitude of industries. From sending payloads into orbit to performing experiments aboard the International Space Station, from launching rockets to having private citizens rocket their projects into deep […]
Reviving the Data-Centric Areas of Houston and Florida
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. Never has nature done more to elevate the importance of data and Data Management, albeit as a result of the power of Mother Nature, because of the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey (in Houston) and Hurricane Irma (in Florida). Never has a city been so dependent on data, never […]
The Language of Data: The Voice of a New Era of Space-Based Research
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. The era of Big Data may as well be another name for a new Space Age: A chance for students and teachers to master the language not only of the final frontier, but the frontiers of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Students must master the frontiers of […]