It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

This is the second in a series on what’s still broken in the analytics space. Part one dealt with data ownership, part two will address technology and part three will focus on people and processes.

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When normalizing data structures, attributes congregate around the business keys that identify the grain at which those attributes derive their values. Attributes directly related to a person, ...

Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word “normalization.” Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code sample and screenshots to show how to programmatically normalize numeric data for use in a machine learning system such as a deep neural ...

When the healthcare industry talks about data, the conversation usually focuses on interoperability and data standards. These are certainly important topics, but they don’t fully address the challenge ...