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 ...

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 ...

Facebook is open-sourcing Presto, an SQL query engine that it developed in-house to help analysts, data scientists and engineers pick apart the information stored in its enormous data warehouses.

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 ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of the largest technology companies in the world that provides both software and hardware products. The firm is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is a graphics processing unit (GPU) designer whose products are used by consumers and companies for several different purposes such as gaming and data mining. NVIDIA ...