Data & AI

From the start, the NoSQL movement within the developer community has been grounded in the idea that there needed to be a different way of building applications that wasn’t boxed-in by the constraints of relational databases. Unfortunately, in their exuberance of being liberated from the chains of Oracle and Microsoft, DBA’s and purchasing departments, developers […]

While 2011-2012 was the breakout timeframe for the term Big Data, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr researched the etymology of the word Big Data to find out who first coined it. He considered between two good  sources: Francis X. Diebold, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, for his paper on “Big Data Dynamic […]

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