A study conducted by Dell EMC in 2014 estimated that we would reach 1.7 megabytes of data produced for every person, every second in 2020. This is a daunting amount of data for companies to manage, ...

Using healthcare data to identify vulnerabilities to patient safety helps inform organizational decision-making, leading to changes that create better patient outcomes. However, data is often siloed, ...

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Note: I've had the eminent thought leader Esteban Kolsky, founder and managing principal of ThinkJar, doing guest posts before on this blog. Time and again, the guy simply nails what the core of ...

Big data offers a number of business advantages. It can help an organization understand the customer experience, predict churn, target specific customer groups and respond to population-wide trends ...

Tired of struggling with pivot tables every time you need to summarize your data in Excel? You’re in luck! Excel’s new GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions are here to make your life easier. These powerful ...

One of the judgments made by scientists is how to aggregate or segregate data – especially when it comes to changing a continuous variable like age – into separate bins (10 to 18, 19 to 34, etc.).

It has been 20 years since the Institute of Medicine declared accurate, reliable, and respectful collection of information from patients about their race and ethnicity to be a fundamental precondition ...