Celebrating 25 Years of TDAN.com!
Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. Websites were new creatures back then,…
Data Modeling News, Articles, & Education
Get a thorough Data Modeling education through TDAN’s Business Intelligence articles, news, and blogs.
Data is Risky Business: The Importance of Fundamentals
In my September 2020 Data is Risky Business column for TDAN.com, I wrote about the strategy lessons for data that we…
Inmon Architecture Versus Kimball Architecture – Revisited
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
The Book Look: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots
I know very few people who specialize in one area of IT/business architecture yet have practical knowledge of how all…
How to Be a Data Shaman
My new book, Data Model Storytelling[i], describes how data models can be used to tell the story of an organization’s…
Business Leaders Need to Know About Data Modeling
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that data-driven decisions have influence over all our lives over the last two years. But…
The Book Look: The Enrichment Game
I very much enjoyed reading The Enrichment Game by Doug Needham. Doug has spoken many times at our Data Modeling…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…
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…
Perception Manipulation in Infographics
The purpose of data visualization is to facilitate the perception of information arrays and to identify patterns that are difficult…