Generic industry data models do have a place, but they serve as a kick-start to the modeling process, not the destination. Consider an address; organizations may break address components apart in ...

Why normalizing your clinical and claims data into standard terminologies is critical to supporting forward-thinking initiatives such as big data analytics, population health management and semantic ...

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A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...

Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented.

At its heart, data modeling is about understanding how data flows through a system. Just as a map can help us understand a city’s layout, data modeling can help us understand the complexities of a ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...