In the development business, there’s no excuse for a bad design. Unfortunately, you probably know developers who skip through or completely ignore the design process because they don’t understand the ...

Over the past decade, firms have taken the plunge to become data driven. They have amassed data, invested in technologies, and paid handsomely for analytical talent. Yet for many, a strong, ...

Big data is less predictable than traditional data, and therefore requires special consideration when building models. Here are some things to keep in mind. Image: iStock/z_wei Data modeling is a ...

Data modeling is the procedure of crafting a visual representation of an entire information system or portions of it in order to convey connections between data points and structures. The objective is ...

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Similarly to how XML became the well-known standard adapted by many software vendors for data exchange, Resource Description Framework (RDF) is going in the same direction for describing and ...

When we build database-backed enterprise applications, we generally want to isolate our entity models, the DbContext, and the logic for database initialization and migration to maintain a clean ...