Managing Metadata in the Self-Service Age
As the world of data management grows and changes, the roles and participants in data ecosystems must adapt. With the…
Data Blogs
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships in Structured Data
In my blog last month, we looked at five aspects of relationship types, relationships in graphs, and how relationships are…
The Human Data Processor
The world is constantly changing, and currently maybe even faster than before. This has a major impact on people; requiring…
Data Architecture COMN Sense: Relationships and Semantics
Introduction Relationships are fundamental to contextual modeling, data modeling, and semantics. It’s important to understand them deeply. This blog will…
Ethics, Shmethics
Ethics is the new black in Information Management. If you don’t believe me, consider the rise of the debate on…
Data Visualization from the Other Side
Data visualization is an important part of analytics. Analytics effectiveness and impact depends on visualization skills of two kinds: the…
Career Roadmapping
In following up on Dave Wells’ recent piece titled The Evolution (and Opportunity) of IT Careers, Jennifer takes a different…
New Data Scientist: Data is a Monster
Big Data is a nebulous and sometimes scary monster. As a student funded under a “Big Data” National Science Foundation…
Combining Data from Multiple Sources – Join, Integrate, Blend?
Data blending is a newly emerged technique that is used primarily by those who work in the area of big…
Which Business Rule do I Believe?
Here we are, well into the 21st Century, and still we have large companies that are not in control of…