At the SQLBits event in Westminster a few years back Simon Munroe did an excellent presentation on NOSQL and where he saw it fitting in. At the time I...

International considerations are a challenging area.

If you want to operate in a market then you have to abide by the rules of that particular market. Back in the 1980s...

Japie Botma (7/11/2016)

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What about POPI laws? (Protection of Personal Information Act). If your data is in the cloud and the whereabouts of the actual server can change with fail...

I spent nearly 2 years on a project that was intended to put a data lake in the cloud. It turned into an infrastructure/data centre migration project in all...

Diligently using fuzzy logic to produce an answer for the wooly thinkers

I'm not sure about chips having constrained accuracy but there is certainly merit in new search capabilities that approximate a match.

Bloom filters are something I would like to see in...

I had a conversation with someone at a classic car show and they pointed out that they are starting to see a cut-off point for the age of cars that...

So much has changed in the past year let alone the 3 since I wrote the original article.

Some traditional vendors initially lined up behind a particular distribution but have now...

My position is that the data asset is likely to outlive the application. It is also an infinitely reusable asset so has a long period to pay back any investment...

Tom,. I wish I could find the blog post which addressed the elephant in the room which was "define business logic".

The author felt that the term was too vague to...

TomThomson (6/30/2016)

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Item 8 in the list is the sort of careless nonsense that is going to hopelessly mislead schema designers into getting it absolutely wrong if they believe it. ...

The problem with using your email address is that you communicate it to a huge number of people.

Sometimes it is possible to guess someones user name because it is based...

For some reason"data homeopathy" is a phrase bouncing around my head at the moment.

The saying goes that a statistician draws a mathematically precise line between an unwarranted assumption and a...

porter.james (6/28/2016)

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As much as I'd like to think our organization could use more data scientists, the reality is that the most accurate statistical models delivered by my colleagues were rejected...

The big challenge with statistics is in communicating what the results actually mean. Understanding that point 51.9 vs 48.1 has no significance in a small sample but becomes immensely...