As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning ...

The ultimate purpose for data is to drive decisions. But data isn’t as reliable or accurate as we want to believe. This leads to a most undesirable result: Bad data means bad decisions. As a data ...

Have you ever stared at a chaotic spreadsheet, wondering how to make sense of the jumble of numbers, text, and inconsistent formatting? You’re not alone. Messy data is a universal frustration, whether ...

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.” I love this quote from organizational theorist Geoffrey Moore because of the implications ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. If you ...

The notion that “Data is the New Oil” has been around for quite some time. Generally credited to mathematician Clive Humby: Data is the new oil. Like oil, data is valuable, but if unrefined it cannot ...