Articles
Have We Forgotten the Purpose of Technology in Business?
Fundamentally, the purpose of technology in business is to manage the treasure trove of data captured within sophisticated technological…
Data Management is a Digital Transformation Foundation
Data Management is intrinsic to the change that Digital Transformation symbolizes. Comprising of hard facts about data from collection,…
Your Next Data Skill is Stakeholder Empathy
The role of data people is often to interpret and communicate information. This can mean taking raw data and cleaning it, or using data to…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method is that modelling not…
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The Book Look: The Enrichment Game
I very much enjoyed reading The Enrichment Game by Doug Needham. Doug has spoken many times at our Data Modeling Zone conferences over the…
Data Professional Introspective: What Good Data Looks Like – Part 4
This column is next in the series of how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines,…
Data’s Gender Gap: Keeping Ourselves in Check
What is the work of data management and analysis for if we don’t properly gather, utilize, and listen to the information we say we’re…
Data is Risky Business: Return to Sender
A recent experience brought home to me the critical importance of good quality data in even the simplest of processes, particularly as…
Blogs
Data Access Governance Requirements for Data Science
Data is the raw material for any type of analytics – whether it is related to historical analysis presented in reports and dashboards by…
Popular Myths About AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most talked-about technology currently and for obvious reasons. However, in the face of many facts…
Differences Between Data Management and Data Governance
A common misconception among c-level executives is that governance and management of data is the same thing other than in capital letters.…
Manufacturing Analytics Will Transform the Industry
In recent years, the consumer demand has changed significantly and for which the manufacturers are buckling up. Manufacturing analytics has…
Features
The Data Marketplace is On the Rise
For most organizations, the process of becoming more data-driven starts with better understanding and using their own data. But internal…
Differences Between Data Lake and Data Warehouses
Data lake is a newer IT term created for a new category of data store. But just what is a data lake? According to IBM, “a data lake is a…
Data Quality Problems Everywhere You Look
Data is everywhere! But can you find the data you need? Can you trust it when you get it? What can be done to ensure the quality of…
How Data Cleansing Helps Predictive Modeling Efforts
If you are planning on using predictive algorithms, such as machine learning or data mining, in your business, then you should be aware…
Artificial Technology Innovations in Healthcare
Artificial Technology has left groundbreaking improvements in several industries, and the health industry is no exception. In conjunction…
What Does Cloud Forensics Mean for Privacy?
The development of the cloud has opened thousands of doors to increasing the speed and efficiency of data management and connectivity.…
Can We Reduce the Risks of Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in place with applications in areas such as medicine, automobile, education, communication…
Common Quality Assurance (QA) Problems
According to research work done by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the US economy loses from $22.5 billion to $59.5…
Why Data Quality Matters
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” John Ruskin, prominent Victorian era…