Data Is Risky Business: Scaling Data Governance to the National Stage
I recently started a doctorate. And because I obviously have too much free time after running my business, teaching, and writing…
Data Columns
The Data-Centric Revolution: Dealing with Data Complexity
There are many perennial issues with data: data quality, data access, data provenance, and data meaning. I will contend in…
Eyes on Data: Understanding Data Products and Their Role in Data Marketplaces
In the rapidly evolving landscape of data management, the concept of data products has emerged as a cornerstone for effective…
A Step Ahead: IoT Sensors – Where Vast Data Comes From
The insight we gain from an IoT system is derived from the data obtained by its sensors. Driven by innovations…
The Art of Lean Governance: The Integrated Governance Framework
In this column, we explore the basic foundations of an integrated governance framework, defined as the correct blending of governance…
Data Speaks for Itself: The Shift from Syntactic to Semantic Data Curation
My column today is a follow-up to my article “The Challenge of Data Consistency,” published in the May 2023 issue…
All in the Data: Take Data Vitamins to Improve Corporate Health
In today’s fast-paced business environment, data is often referred to as the lifeblood of an organization. Just as the human…
Crossing the Data Divide: Metrics Stores Remind Me That Data Work Is Hard
If you haven’t heard about metrics stores yet, they’re “newish,” so you likely will. They are interesting to an extent,…
Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program (Part 2)
In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a…
The Book Look: AI Governance
Technics Publications has started publishing a line of Data-Driven AI books, and one of the first books in this series…