Welcome to the laboratory for database and data mining at Simon Fraser university. In today's information society, we witness an explosive growth of the amount of information becoming available in ...

A few days ago, we highlighted the drastic privacy implications of new guidelines issued to govern data-mining by the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCTC”). Yesterday, we testified to Congress ...

1. Can existing data and infrastructure support the proposed data-mining tool? Some solutions will require a separate server for analysis, which could increase the expenditure by adding server ...

Is there gold in them there mountains of data? The average large enterprise has terabytes of data on hand — customer information, supplier exchanges, and internal company records that contain data.

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

Self-service data exploration by line-of-business analysts is an ideal that has been elusive in the world of big data. Whether hampered by issues with hardware or data-set tuning, business analysts ...

Because data is stored in tools in different formats, cross-tool metrics require data normalization to make sense of it all. Moreover, unique (and unpublished) database schemas per tool require ...

The Harvard Business Review’s depiction in a 2012 article of data mining as the “sexiest career of the 21st century” may strike some as an odd pairing, but the field’s gain in corporate status and its ...