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Data that’s captured isn’t always stored, and storage alone doesn’t get the job done. Many transportation agencies are sitting on troves of data they’re not sure how to interpret. Even when vendors ...

A new era of data is upon us. The technology industry generally and the data business specifically are in a state of transition. Even our language reflects that. For example, we rarely use the phrase ...

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, ...