Why Your Data Governance Strategy is Failing
What is Data Governance and How Do You Measure Success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about…
Data Articles
Using AI to Curb COVID
For the past two years, COVID-19 has had a significant effect on our lives. and it has also dramatically affected…
What Is Data Science, Really?
Not too long ago, I attended a conference on data analytics and machine learning. I listened to one innovative and…
You Needed to Use External Data Yesterday
There’s an impossible amount of information thrown at us every day. Our jobs, calls, emails, news media, dashboards, more emails,…
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 systems.…
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, unification,…
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…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…
Ownership of Vocabulary vs. Ownership of Data
Can the responsibilities for vocabulary ownership and data ownership by business stakeholders be separate? Should they be? I have listened…
Perception Manipulation in Infographics
The purpose of data visualization is to facilitate the perception of information arrays and to identify patterns that are difficult…