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 Columns
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…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: A Data Acumen Quick Reference
Data Acumen, Literacy, and Culture Data literacy, or data acumen[1] as we like to call it, is increasingly cited as…
The Art of Lean Governance: Eliminating Waste Across the Data Factory
The time wasted spent collecting and validating data can approach 80% of the total effort for managing data. This estimate…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I shared how our reactions to data can cause a great deal of suffering…
All in the Data: The Same Difference of Data Governance and Data Management
What does your head do when someone uses the expression “same difference”? Mine explodes! Does it mean things are the…