In my 20 years of experience, I've seen how data centralization and visualization can support strategic decision making by making complex data from multiple sources clear and easy to interpret. This ...

Over a coffee, an executive at a major database vendor recently admitted, "Database migration tools haven't really delivered on their promise." Most practitioners would agree. After decades of ...

We are living in an extractive data economy. Every day, people generate a firehose of new data on hundreds of apps and services. These data are often sold by data brokers indiscriminately, embedded ...

“This looks like a rock concert, but for data people,” said Conviction CEO Sarah Guo at the opening keynote of Snowflake Summit 2025, hosted in San Francisco. A crowd of 20,000 erupted in cheers as ...

Your data is only as good as how you interpret it. Fueled by the promise of concrete insights, organizations are increasingly prioritizing data in their decision-making processes. But that process can ...

Big data can help make Americans healthier, and the Trump Administration has stated—in its recently released Make America Healthy Again report and elsewhere—that building a national big-data platform ...

Imagine opening Excel and no longer needing to wrestle with complex formulas or spend hours manually analyzing data. What if you could simply type a question, like “What are the top-performing ...

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