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Edoardo Romani Edoardo Romani
Updated on July 31, 2025

What Is Diagnostic Analytics?

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

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Artem Oppermann Artem Oppermann
Updated on July 31, 2025

What Is Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)?

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.

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David McInerney David McInerney
Updated on July 29, 2025

Healthcare Data and the New Age of Consent

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.  

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Anupam Upadhyaya Anupam Upadhyaya
Updated on July 24, 2025

Why Modern Data Security Challenges Require a Holistic Approach

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.

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Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on July 23, 2025

What Is Differential Privacy? Can ‘Noisy’ Data Help Add Anonymity to Public Data Sets?

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

Mamta Singh Mamta Singh
Updated on July 22, 2025

What Is Traceroute?

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.

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Sara A. Metwalli Sara A. Metwalli
Updated on July 22, 2025

What Is Superposition?

Superposition is a quantum principle that describes a quantum system’s ability to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured.

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Stephen Gossett Stephen Gossett
Updated on July 15, 2025

What Is a Chief Data Officer?

Chief data officers, or CDOs, are C-suite executives responsible for the developing and implementing an organization’s data strategy.

Julius Černiauskas Julius Černiauskas
Updated on July 15, 2025

What Does Cloudflare’s New Opt-In Model Mean for AI Model Training?

Cloudflare announced it will now block AI scrapers by default, but will this improve relationships between AI builders and content creators? Our expert weighs in.

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Margo Steines Margo Steines
Updated on July 14, 2025

10 Top Data Broker Companies

Data brokers collect, clean up, analyze and sell access to data about individuals and organizations. These are the top data brokers to know.

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