Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Catalog War Stories
Data Catalogs have great promise. They can provide the businessperson, analyst, architect, system engineer and data scientist alike the ability…
Data Columns
The Book Look: We The People (Playbook for Data Ethics)
I love books that make you think. We The People, by Kathy Rondon, leads us down the path of rethinking…
Data Value Chain: Lego Framework – Level 2
“Data Driven” as a key word is not new. Success stories of implementing a data driven culture or creating successful…
All in the Data: A Steward is a Steward
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a popular maxim from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet,…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 2
Governance for Acquired Data / Selecting Sources Our next column in the series explores challenges with governing acquired data, and…
Data’s Gender Gap: Healthcare’s Data Gap Is Still Open
A note from the author: In the last iteration of this column, I noted that it would be the end…
Data is Risky Business: It Takes a Village to Raise a Datum
Since my last contribution to TDAN.com, two activities I’ve been involved in have made me think about what lies beneath…
The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems…
Through the Looking Glass: Supply-Side Data Governance
Fit for Purpose data has been a foundational concept of Data Governance for as long as I’ve been in the…
Data Speaks for Itself: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
I had a great experience attending the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in Cambridge this July. It…