Microsoft today introduced the launch of Azure Data Lake Analytics, a new cloud-based service for running queries on big data stored in the Microsoft’s growing public cloud. It uses a new ...

I am just curious if there are other Arsians working with this technology, and what you are doing with it.<BR><BR>I was up at the Reston Microsoft Technology Center for two weeks learning about this ...

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 isn’t just techno-speak for messing around with a lot of data. Data mining doesn’t give you supernatural powers, either. Data mining is a specific way to use specific kinds of math. It’s ...

Data is not sedentary. Once data has been created, organizations tend to move it around to support many different purposes—different applications, different geographies, different users, different ...

Every interaction your company has with a customer or supplier likely generates a data trail–and that data provides a wealth of information for marketers. Extracting that information and getting it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I decode analytics for business people. This article is more than 9 years old. Analytics initiatives are not failure proof. In ...