As part of its Category Management initiative, the U.S. General Services Administration (“GSA”) has piloted the Transactional Data Reporting rule (“TDR”), which is meant to provide a greater degree of ...

Welcome to Data Spotlight, our series showcasing insights derived from Bloomberg’s 8,000+ enterprise datasets available on data.bloomberg.com via Data License. In this edition we take a look at ...

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This is as true for data as it is for art. With the advent of big data, there is a tremendous need to manage, interpret and communicate it effectively – because ...

After almost seven years, the General Services Administration’s Transactional Data Reporting pilot program is still “flawed” because of inaccurate, unreliable and unusable data, which could cause ...

IN our evolving business environment, organisations are under immense pressure to innovate, grow sustainably and transform lives, internally and externally. Many leaders struggle with the false ...

With the Senate passing the Federal Government’s data retention bill last week, there has been a great deal of discussion of “metadata”, what it is and whether the government ought to have access to ...

With structured data, data fields are aligned side-by-side in fixed record lengths, with specific data fields appearing at static locations within each record. Unstructured data does not contain a set ...

The General Services Administration (GSA) is scheduled to expand a 2016 rule this November, but faces significant opposition from within its own agency due to questionable data from a pilot program.