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…
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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…
Data’s Gender Gap: Women’s Health at Risk
Data’s gender gap manifests and permeates society in a wide variety of detrimental ways. One area where it is the…
Data is Risky Business: The Data Crisis Unmasked
As I am writing this, countries around the world are fighting a global pandemic. This is the first global pandemic…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Being Zen With Coronavirus Data
Is it possible to listen without opinion, judgement or stories [i]? In this coronavirus pandemic, many people have strong opinions,…
Data is Risky Business: Data Literacy is Not Just About Shiny Toys
In this column I want to talk about data literacy, and not because it is the “buzzword de jour.” By…