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Bonnie O'Neil is a Principal Computer Scientist at the MITRE Corporation, and is internationally recognized on all phases of data architecture including data quality, business metadata, and governance. She is a regular speaker at many conferences and has also been a workshop leader at the Meta Data/DAMA Conference, and others; she was the keynote speaker at a conference on Data Quality in South Africa. She has been involved in strategic data management projects in both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, and her expertise includes specialized skills such as data profiling and semantic data integration. She is the author of three books including Business Metadata (2007) and over 40 articles and technical white papers.

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: In Defense of the Data Catalog

In the September issue of TDAN.com, Anthony Algmin denounced Data Catalogs as a “1980’s solution to a 2020’s problem.” Wow!…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalogs are a Landmark

451 Research begins its paper on the “unstoppable rise of the Data Catalog” with the following: Could the data catalog…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Identifying the Right Graph Database – Pt 4

As a Data Management professional, it is important to understand the top three challenges of working with graph databases. Modeling…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Two Types of Graph Databases

This column focuses on 1) two classes of graph databases – Property and Semantic 2) how Property and Semantic graph…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Distinguish Graph DBs from Other DBs

This series of columns will focus on many things including the nature of a graph database, how we evolved to…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: How to Choose the Right Graph Database

Often, we continuously struggle to identify the right tool for the right requirement, especially after mastering graph database terminology and…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Help the Fed Use Data as an Asset

The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) lays out a long-term vision for modernizing the Federal Government. Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goal #2…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: A Tool for Agile Data Transformation (MDOX)

Data Transformation is usually thought of in the context of database ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading)— i.e. moving data wholesale…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Principles in Data Projects, Part 2

The Agile Data Disconnect Why do data practitioners, and (especially) data modelers typically run away from Agile? In traditional projects…

Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Principles in Data Projects, Part 1

Welcome to our new column, Tales & Tips from the Trenches. Written with contributions from authors with many years’ experience…