At 74, Theresa Edwards rises before dawn, crisscrossing Los Angeles by bus to work as a caregiver. Her last patient of the day? Her husband of 55 years, recovering from a serious car accident. Every dollar counts in their household, where four grandchildren also reside. “Sometimes I wish I could stop working,” Edwards confides. “But […]

The Oakland Coliseum was abuzz, the air thick with anticipation. In the dimly lit back office, Billy Beane, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, sat hunched over a cluttered desk. Papers were strewn everywhere, but Billy’s focus was on a single sheet filled with numbers, statistics, and player names. The Athletics, with one of […]

Big data is an indispensable part of our modern existence, powering several real-world applications such as personalized marketing, healthcare diagnostics, fraud prevention and many more that have transformed the way we live, work, and communicate with each other. However, since big data has become such a critical component of organizational decision-making, it is imperative to […]

Data has grown in importance as a commercial asset, with many companies investing considerably in data collection and transformation. Nevertheless, data collection is not the biggest challenge; what businesses do with it is. In the age of big data, another crucial difficulty is guaranteeing quality.  Moreover, firms frequently face data management difficulties such as inefficient […]

Data products have exploded in popularity over the last few years. As an industry, we are where the automobile industry was around the turn of the 20th century. We are slowly transitioning from building hand-crafted, exclusive products for Big Tech customers to widespread commoditization. Soon, efficiency, maintenance, standards, and assembly lines are going to be […]

“There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every two days.” – Eric Schmidt, Google Human beings are now, on a semi-daily basis, generating and collecting data that equals the volume of the total collective knowledge of our species till around the […]