Like yesterday’s data warehouses, today’s data lakes threaten to lock us into proprietary formats and systems that restrict innovation and raise costs A data lake is a system or repository that stores ...

Two commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve a rule change that would require public companies to submit financial statements in a streamlined open data format. Citizen ...

A CSV (comma-separated values) file is a text file in which information is separated by commas. CSV files are most commonly encountered in spreadsheets and databases. You can use a CSV file to move ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Let’s take a quick dip into Open Data Lakes Analytics. But before we do, we need to cross off some names and ...

Across the region, the potential of open data still hasn’t been fully recognised as a driver for good governance. Analysis of data.gov portals show that though data is available in machine-readable ...