Leon Yen

Leon Yen is a contributing writer to Datamation and Enterprise Storage Forum. He has been reporting on technology for over a decade and has written for CNET and BigThink. Before that, he was the co-founder and CEO of a cybersecurity startup, where he led the development of an industry-first cyber risk management platform. He has an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and a BS in Information Systems from the University of San Francisco. In his spare time, he enjoys writing science fiction, surfing, and painting murals.

Data Visualization Trends

From prehistoric cave paintings to the pictogram-based writing systems of the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, the affinity for codifying information as visuals has been a defining, persistent characteristic of human behavior.  Many contemporary...

Data Modeling Trends

With global data creation increasing at unprecedented rates, collection is more often a trivial task: computers, smartphones, and any number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices — 30.9 billion at last count —...

Database Trends

With more data created in the last couple years than in humankind’s entire history, the need to effectively manage, manipulate, and secure these information assets has never been more critical. This demand ...

Data Mining Trends

In a world awash with data, true gems of knowledge are seldom discovered through surface-level digging; proverbial data “mines” are hard-won and must be actively sought out. And as data mining is...

Data Science Market Trends

When famed mathematician John W. Tukey postulated that advanced computing would have a profound effect on data analysis, he probably didn’t imagine the full extent to which this yet-to-be-named field would become...

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