Click to learn more about author Keith D. Foote. Mathematical optimization has become a problem-solving technology that can be used to automatically generate solutions to business problems. It helps in selecting the best business choices possible. One basic feature of mathematical optimization is the recognition that decisions, and their resulting actions, have far reaching implications […]
A Brief History of Microservices
The history and origins of microservices are a continuing effort to provide better communication between different platforms, greater simplicity, and more user-friendly systems. Microservices are typically thought of as a software development technique which organizes an application as a group of loosely coupled services. It is, however, any kind of small service which interacts with […]
Fundamentals of Robotic Process Automation and Data Management
Data Management software is essential to providing organizations with critical insights about their customer’s behavior. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a process in which software programs perform repetitive Data Management tasks, such as data validation, email responses, normalization, and metadata organization. Put another way, RPA automates the mundane. It does this by observing and imitating […]
So You Want to be a Machine Learning Engineer?
Ideally, a machine learning engineer would have both the skills of a software engineer and the experience of a data scientist and data engineer. However, data scientists and software engineers usually come from very different backgrounds, and data scientists should not be expected to be great programmers, nor should software engineers be expected to provide […]
A Brief History of Data Literacy
Data Literacy is essentially the ability to read and understand data, much as one might read and understand a magazine article. The primary advantage of having the bulk of the staff made up of people who are data literate is that it reduces the need for data scientists. People on staff can handle many of […]
Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics
Combining ethics with Data Management and artificial intelligence can build an organization people will trust. Ethical behavior promotes the smooth functioning of human interactions, which includes business, and supports the overall community. AI has the potential to make ethical decisions and can be used to create a healthy relationship with the customer base. Businesses can […]
Artificial Neural Networks: An Overview
Neural networks and deep learning currently provide some of the most reliable image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language processing solutions available. However, it wasn’t always that way. One of the earliest and simplest teaching philosophies for artificial intelligence was marginally successful. It suggested that loading the maximum amount of information into a powerful computer […]
Cloud-Based Data Management Platforms in the Age of Privacy
Click to learn more about author Keith D. Foote. Currently, many businesses are using public clouds to do their Data Management. Data Management platforms (DMPs) started becoming popular during the late 1990s and the early 2000s. At that time, the internet services offered by Amazon and Salesforce appealed to a large number of businesses because […]
A Brief History of Metadata
Metadata is a small amount of data designed to provide reference information about other data. For example, in 280 BC, the Great Library of Alexandria attached a small, dangling tag to the end of each individual scroll. The tags gave the title, subject, and author, allowing library users to assume the content, without having to […]
Graph Databases: Updates on Their Growing Popularity
Graph databases became recognized as a database design in 2006, when Tim Bernes-Lee developed the concept of a huge database called the “linked data.” This concept became the basis of graph storage, and could display how organizations, people, and items or entities are associated, or “interconnected” with one another, and the nature of the relationships. […]