The term "paradigm shift" is bandied about far too often in books and articles about healthcare. Thomas Kuhn in his classic book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" coined the term to describe a ...

Fundamental changes in the way we work with data come along very rarely. For example, the database model that has remained the industry standard for decades—the relational database—was first conceived ...

For scientific investigation, observational and instrument-derived data is the lineage of information which provides knowledge that enables managers to make strategic and tactical data-based decisions ...

In a recent paper published by Professor Xin Li and Dr. Yanlong Guo from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the authors explore the profound paradigm shift in ...

Big data is a moving target, and it comes in waves: before the dust from each wave has settled, new waves in data processing paradigms rise. Streaming, aka real-time / unbounded data processing, is ...

To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

The rise of big data technologies in enterprise IT is now seen as an inevitability, but adoption has occurred at a slower pace than expected, according to Joe Caserta, president and CEO of Caserta ...

“Dremio is a new breed of data analytics platform that doesn’t require ETL, cubes, data warehouses, or even data virtualization tools to deliver self-service analytics to data analysts,” said Wayne ...

There are times when a centralized data source may not always be a good idea. In a paper published in May 2019, Zhamak Dehghani (pictured), director of Next Tech Incubation NA at ThoughtWorks Inc., ...

Big data is not a fad. We are just at the beginning of a revolution that will touch every business and every life on this planet. But loads of people are still treating the concept of big data as ...

Following are five strategic tips for avoiding big data failure. In many cases, the advice pertains to any data management project, regardless of the size of the data set. But the advent of massive ...

Big data platform startup dbt Labs Inc. said today it’s reinvigorating its flagship dbt Cloud offering with new enhancements and capabilities that it says will enable every employee to participate in ...