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Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

The initial step in preparing for the onset of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) involves getting a full view of the entire information chain to ensure regulations are met. To be fully ...

Vizzuality launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB this week, promising an easy and customizable way for users to display their geospatial data. CartoDB is being promoted as a more “flexible ...

In our recent webinar, It’s Time to Think About Data Mapping Differently, a poll revealed some interesting information: Nearly 50 percent of respondents house their data map in a spreadsheet. (Roughly ...

Becoming a fast, data-driven organization requires a lot of work under the hood. Integrating, processing, and analyzing data from a diverse, endless range of sources—in a way that is cohesive and ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...