Make an Impact: Three Words to Irrelevancy
I get it. Creating data value is challenging under the best circumstances—and frankly, most of us aren’t in perfect situations.…
Anthony Algmin
Make an Impact: Data Team Building
Welcome to my refreshed TDAN.com column! We decided to align the title, Make an Impact, more closely with other Data…
The Data Forecast: Data Wrangling Basics
“Data Wrangling” — as a Data Management term, is about as good as it gets. Action-oriented describes what it actually…
The Data Forecast: Don’t Be Chris Burke
Every organization seems to have little things about their culture that makes the place unique. At one of my former…
The Data Forecast: Data Quality is Not What We Think
The data management space is riddled with terms that sound familiar but betray their true complexity. We also often choose…
The Data Forecast: There is No Such Thing as the “Private” Cloud!
Free lunch. Unicorns. Automatic faucets that actually work. None of these exist. “Private” Cloud also belongs on this list. To understand…
The Data Forecast: (Un-)Reasons to do Data Analytics in the Cloud
Let’s get this out of the way: you need to move your data analytics to the cloud. Some people may…
The Data Forecast: The Ridiculous CDO
We’re Solving the Wrong Problem Data people love to have the same conversations over and over again. Attend a data…
The Data Forecast: The Value of Data
Data is a fascinating thing. We have a sense that this stuff is valuable, but we struggle to put it…
Driving Data Innovation in the City of Chicago
The City of Chicago spent several years and a considerable amount of money building a situational awareness platform called “WindyGrid”…