Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated for 2018. We practitioners of the technological arts have a tendency to use specialized jargon. That's not unusual.

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to drive more value with data and analytics. In terms of velocity and Big Data, it’s easy to fixate on the ...

In life science research, data comes in many forms - structured clinical trial tables, semi-structured instrument outputs, and unstructured lab notes or images. This “variety” makes it difficult to ...

With Big Data making headlines daily, it’s easy to mistake “lots of data” for “Big Data.” As most IT folks agree, organizations of all stripes, from government agencies to academia, have been dealing ...

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Mention the word “database,” and most people think of the venerable RDBMS that has dominated the landscape for more than 30 years. That, however, may soon change. A whole crop of new contenders are ...

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