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Are you a hacker with a huge heart? Code for America is looking for developers, data scientists, designers, researchers, and product managers for its 2014 Fellowship. We connect talented technologists with municipal governments to explore new ways of resolving local challenges and create new web apps.…

as a Favorite New Product of 2013! (An External Award Acknowledgement)

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What seemed to be an untractable problem involving trillions of quadrillions of computations - far more than required to process all the data produced or collected on Earth since the beginning of times - has been reduced to something computationally feasible and even possibly quite simple. One applicant…

I was offered a surface for father's day this year. I had an old iPad that I've used for several years, and I was curious to know if you can use the Surface just like a Windows laptop. While it has great features, faster Internet, and much more, the answer is clearly no.…

This is another example where, if you lack analytic skills, you will jump to the wrong conclusions. This news article was published in MyNorthWest. It's about the new law that went into effect a year ago in WA, allowing grocery stores to sell hard liquor. Here we provide 16 reasons that…

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I am not an expert in database design, since most of my career I have worked with alternate data storage / data access solutions. But one of the very first projects I had to do back in 1985 when I was a student was to write the code for a fully functional database architecture, in Pascal, from scratch. You will probably find some of my questions naive, and some intriguing.…

Big data has the potential to alter the calculus by which data management groups buy, manage, and structure information storage. 

Article originally published on TDWI, by Stephen…