Mark Jenkins, director; and Alex Berry, practice group lead at Arcadis, explore why data management is just as crucial as ...

Physical Schema. A physical data model or physical schema is a representation of an implementation design; it defines data abstraction within physical parameters.

Data visualization can serve two distinct purposes: to communicate research findings and to guide the data-exploration process as the scientific story is unfolding. Each goal entails a different ...

A map is another example of a representation. The mind is a kind of map. The brain, and its functional product the mind, evolved as a map of the body’s relation to its external environment.

Behavioral information from an Apple Watch, such as physical activity, cardiovascular fitness, and mobility metrics, may be ...

In perhaps the most intriguing attempt to produce a “physical Bitcoin,” Matthias Dörfelt used hashes for 64 random blocks and turned them into physical representations of themselves.

Among its many benefits, digitalization is a key component of global sustainability. The more we can replace physical objects (paper and construction materials, for example, as well as the means to ...