Most of the times when I think of data, what comes to mind is that funny android aboard the USS Enterprise that most of the times bothered Captain Picard with his witty, sometimes childish comments. But more often than not, since I work with mountains of data every day, as I’m sure you are, I

Ever noticed that when you’re talking to someone it sometimes seems that what you’re saying and what the other person understands are quite a bit different? Quite frankly, it happens more often than you’d think. One of my favorite comparisons when it comes to data exchange, my de facto area of expertise, is language—how we