A database about data and databases. A data dictionary holds the name, type, range of values, source and authorization for access for each data element in the organization's files and databases. It ...

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Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. The emergence of business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives has placed ...

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One of the biggest new ideas in computing is “big data.” There is unanimous agreement that big data is revolutionizing commerce in the 21st century. When it comes to business, big data offers ...

People love to talk about big data. But people across all industries seem to offer different definitions of what big data actually is. University of California Berkeley School of Information asked ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What is “Data Science”? Data science is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on extracting meaningful insights and knowledge from ...

Unstructured data refers to information that does not have a predefined data model or organized format, making it more challenging to store, process, and analyze compared to structured data. Unlike ...