The Tau of Data

How do you know what’s true? This seemingly simple question underpins a surprisingly large number of issues that we as information…

Programmers love a fight. Ask a roomful of programmers the question “EMACS or VI”, leave the room for coffee, come back half an hour later…

There’s a concept that’s been floating around from the realm of Big Data called a “data lake”. Now, personally, this is a remarkably…

Recently, I wrote a couple of articles on time series, and this in turn got me thinking about the challenges of modeling time — and the…

This is almost too crazy basic to be posting as a post, but its implications are huge. I’ve just figured out how to call custom functions…

Time series, measurement data that changes over time, underlies the foundation for nearly all forms of data analysis. You want to show how…

There’s a little secret that ontologists know that should make insurance companies, and that makes quite a few other people sweat more than…

Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format…

When describing semantic technologies to developers, one area that causes immediate confusion is what benefit RDF has over SQL data. Both…