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How Will The Cloud Impact Data Warehousing Technologies?

Smart Data Collective

Dating back to the 1970s, the data warehousing market emerged when computer scientist Bill Inmon first coined the term ‘data warehouse’. Created as on-premise servers, the early data warehouses were built to perform on just a gigabyte scale. The faster the data generation, the more handling it required.

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Data Mining – useful or not?

Jen Stirrup

What distinguishes Data Mining from other methods of exploring data, and what is its usefulness? Critics might say that if you torture the data enough, it will eventually confess! Computers contain lots of data, but people need help to turn this data into intelligence.