SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Is your government agency struggling to get a handle on datamining? If so, representatives from IBM and Splunk have a few tips to help make better sense of unstructured data and ...

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

A guide to what data mining is, how it works, and why it's important. Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists,' privacy advocates ...

In this era of big data, researchers are relying more and more on data mining to help them with their research. Researchers from nearly every field (not to mention businesses from almost every sector) ...

Data mining tools collect and analyze data much faster than humans. Learn what data mining is, how it works, and how to use it effectively. Data mining is an important big data management strategy ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...

A few days ago, we highlighted the drastic privacy implications of new guidelines issued to govern data-mining by the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCTC”). Yesterday, we testified to Congress ...