A category of data. The broadest data types are alphanumeric and numeric. Programming languages allow for the creation of several data types, such as integer (whole numbers), floating point, binary ...

Yesterday I got an email from UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science program, asking me to respond to a survey of data science thought leaders, asking the question “What is big data”? I ...

An elementary data structure that is supported natively by a programming language or other software development system. Strings (alphanumeric characters), integers and Boolean (yes/no) are examples of ...