data

Data are individual units of information. A datum describes a single quality or quantity of some object or phenomenon. In analytical processes, data are represented by variables. Although the terms "data", "information" and "knowledge" are often used interchangeably, each of these terms has a distinct meaning.

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Taking New Approaches To Retail Stores And Faster Payment Models
Taking New Approaches To Retail Stores And Faster Payment Models
January 02, 2020  |  Today In Data

Anchor Shops is aiming to keep the parts of the department store experience that are still working, while minimizing the portions that drag down department store profits. And,...

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Why Turkish Banks Are Bullish On PSD2
Why Turkish Banks Are Bullish On PSD2
January 02, 2020  |  Regulation

Banks and FinTechs in the European Union have settled into a period of harmony with the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). These financial institutions (FIs)...

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How AI Will Decide What You Wear
How AI Will Decide What You Wear
December 26, 2019  |  Retail

At the start of the 2010s, retail merchandising was, at base, a lot of guesswork. The fashion industry made decisions on its seasonal lines once...

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How TripAdvisor Put The Kibosh On 1M Fake Reviews With Machine Learning
How TripAdvisor Put The Kibosh On 1M Fake Reviews With Machine Learning
December 23, 2019  |  Fraud Prevention

Reviews are a critical part of the online travel economy, with online shoppers poring over feedback to decide which companies to patronize. But false reviews...

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Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 
Hackers Access Unsecured Facebook Database With 267M Users’ Info 
December 20, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech discovered that a Facebook database with 267 million user IDs, phone numbers and names was left unsecured and accessed...

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Why Rent The Runway Wants To Become The Amazon Prime Of Retail
Why Rent The Runway Wants To Become The Amazon Prime Of Retail
December 20, 2019  |  Retail

A decade ago, the concept of building a retail operation around shopping in other people’s closets was something of a hard sell. In 2009, the...

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Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?
Can Data Driven Lending Displace VC Funding For Some Firms?
December 17, 2019  |  Loans

Running a small business is not for the faint of heart — or the deeply optimistic. The numbers, as offered by the U.S. Bureau of...

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Data Standardization’s Path To Faster Supplier Payments
Data Standardization’s Path To Faster Supplier Payments
December 13, 2019  |  B2B Payments

One can’t move money without moving information — a fact that’s particularly true for the B2B payments space, in which remittance and transaction data is...

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Inside N26’s Strategy to Win US Customers
Inside N26’s Strategy to Win US Customers
December 13, 2019  |  Digital Banking

Challenger banks with a couple of operating years behind them are beginning to get a taste of the problems they handed to legacy banking institutions....

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