Big Data Articles

Sandro Shubladze

Updated on August 04, 2025

High-quality, fresh data is critical for AI performance. Fortunately, public data scraping offers a source for such data.

Julia Zolotarev

Updated on August 01, 2025

A non-relational database (or NoSQL database) is a data storage system that allows flexible, schema-less organization of information using formats like documents, key-value pairs, graphs or wide-column structures.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on August 01, 2025

Data silos are isolated collections of data within an organization that are not easily accessible by other teams or systems, hindering collaboration and unified data analysis.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on July 31, 2025

CatBoost is a machine learning gradient-boosting library that builds decision trees optimized for handling categorical data with high accuracy and minimal data preprocessing.

Edoardo Romani

Updated on July 31, 2025

Diagnostic analytics is the process of examining historical data to identify the root causes behind outcomes, trends or anomalies.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on July 31, 2025

Object-relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique that lets developers use object-oriented code to interact with relational databases, by translating objects to and from database-compatible formats.

David McInerney

Updated on July 29, 2025

Patients are sharing more data than ever before with health care apps, but data privacy and consent practices haven’t kept up. Here’s what that means for patients and companies.  

Anupam Upadhyaya

Updated on July 24, 2025

Existing efforts to stymie the top data risks of today often fail. Our expert explains why a holistic, multilayered approach is required to fix modern data security.

Stephen Gossett

Updated on July 23, 2025

The census and COVID exposure trackers rely on deliberately noisy data as a privacy measure. Here’s how it works.

Mamta Singh

Updated on July 22, 2025

Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool that tracks the path data packets take from a source device to a destination by identifying each router (or hop) along the way. It helps measure latency between hops and pinpoint where network route delays occur.