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 ...

Data mining is an analytical process designed to explore and analyze large data sets to discover meaningful patterns, correlations and insights. It involves using sophisticated data analysis tools to ...

Data mining isn’t just techno-speak for messing around with a lot of data. Data mining doesn’t give you supernatural powers, either. Data mining is a specific way to use specific kinds of math. It’s ...

At the heart of the latest wave of tool consolidation in enterprise software delivery is data—and getting all that precious information into one place. By creating a single platform experience to help ...

A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

No business can be data-driven if the only people interested in data analysis are the analysts. Just as the guidance of accountants and attorneys shapes everyday business, analytics must be integrated ...

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 ...