Data’s Gender Gap: Gender and Infrastructure
Perhaps the most commonly shared and immediately visible example of gender inequity in public spaces is restroom lines. It seems…
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The Data-Centric Revolution: The Role of SemOps (Part 2)
In our previous installment of this two-part series we introduced a couple of ideas. First, data governance may be more…
Zen and The Art of Data Maintenance: Data, Politics, and Polarization
An angry mob outside government buildings killed people because of political disagreement. This mob represented one political party and their…
Data is Risky Business: The Importance of Fundamentals
In my last column for TDAN.com, I wrote about the strategy lessons for data that we can learn from the…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Data ‘Mine’ing and Universal Data Semantics
There is a great deal of talk in our industry about the importance of having common, standard data semantics and…
Data’s Gender Gap: The Roots of Data’s Gender Gap
When working with students and educators to address a particular issue, I often have them draw a massive tree. They…
Make An Impact: The Data Catalog is a 1980’s Solution for 2020’s Problems
Remember the Sears catalog? Hundreds of pages of clothes quickly flipped past to get to the toys! Who didn’t spend…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Centralization
We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a…
The Book Look: New Book on the Data Catalog
About a week ago, I was teaching a data modeling class, and an attendee asked me to explain the concept…
The Data-Centric Revolution: The Sky is Falling (Let’s Make Lemonade)
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by…