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 Education
Data’s Gender Gap: Keeping Ourselves in Check
What is the work of data management and analysis for if we don’t properly gather, utilize, and listen to the…
Data is Risky Business: Return to Sender
A recent experience brought home to me the critical importance of good quality data in even the simplest of processes,…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…
Data Quality Problems Everywhere You Look
Data is everywhere! But can you find the data you need? Can you trust it when you get it? What…
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…
Through the Looking Glass: Caught in the Web of Data
“There is another undefined frontier, that of time. A living language is in a continuous state of change, of ‘slow…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Avoiding the Hype Cycle
Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated expectations. If you are a Knowledge Graph software vendor, this…
Differences Between Data Management and Data Governance
A common misconception among c-level executives is that governance and management of data is the same thing other than in…
Perception Manipulation in Infographics
The purpose of data visualization is to facilitate the perception of information arrays and to identify patterns that are difficult…