“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

Additional data or information that can be appended to a crypto transaction on a blockchain is referred to as metadata in blockchain transactions. Metadata is data about data. In the context of ...

Transactional analysis, a social psychology theory originally developed by Dr. Eric Berne in the 1950s, can be used to improve communication and understand your own way of behaving and communicating.

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

To help understand international trade, suppose that there are only two international transaction that take place in a given period, but let’s assume that those two transactions are representative of ...

Imagine if, a decade ago, your retail business could have seen how and where consumers were adopting e-commerce. Imagine if you could have observed how adoption patterns differed by age group and by ...

As part of its strategy to support application developers, open-banking platform provider Plaid Inc. this week introduced at its developer conference several tools to help developers create a broader ...

The credit card processing industry is undergoing a major change since Visa announced the Commercial Enhanced Data Program (CEDP), which went live in the U.S. in April. This new program replaces the ...