It’s tempting just to replicate all databases in the cloud, but it’s a much better approach to get your data house in order as part of the move. Last week I discussed database normalization as a best ...

Finding all of your raw software data overwhelming? Struggling to take actionable information away from it? Software normalization (or recognition as it’s also known) isn’t particularly new, but it’s ...

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This online data science specialization is ideal for learners interested in database design, database software fundamentals, and how to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to work with databases. You ...

Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word “normalization.” Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling ...

When normalizing data structures, attributes congregate around the business keys that identify the grain at which those attributes derive their values. Attributes directly related to a person, ...

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, ...

Database normalization is the cornerstone of database theory. Once a database is normalized, relationships between the data in multiple tables must be established. A hefty part of designing a ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code sample and screenshots to show how to programmatically normalize numeric data for use in a machine learning system such as a deep neural ...