Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Data is a critical ...

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 spent hours wrestling with messy spreadsheets, trying to clean up data that just won’t cooperate? Or maybe you’ve found yourself manually merging files, painstakingly copying and pasting ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this section, we use the open data SFMTA Bikeway Network at San Francisco Data. The data include the network of bike routes, lanes, and paths around the city of San Francisco. Maintained by the ...

The world runs on data. A hallmark of successful businesses is their ability to use quality facts and figures to their advantage. Unfortunately, data rarely arrives ready to use. Instead, businesses ...