Legal Issues for Data Professionals: A New Data Licensing Model
Setting the Stage: Data as a Business Asset This column presents a new model for licensing and sharing data, one that…
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How Data Modeling Made Me a Better Engineer
My name is Bill Burkett, and I am a data modeler. I don’t call myself that often and sometimes have…
Reimagining Data Preparation for High-Impact Decision-Making
Data often arrives from multiple sources in inconsistent forms, including duplicate entries from CRM systems, incomplete spreadsheet records, and mismatched…
Crossing the Data Divide: A Case for Data Leaders Embracing Process Modeling
In the early days of enterprise data and business systems, process modeling and data modeling went hand-in-hand. It was standard…
How Can Data Visualization Help You Achieve Business Results?
Research has shown that many people learn best when they see a story or information depicted in an image. Graphs,…
A Data-Driven Approach to Climate Risk Assessment for the Insurance Industry
Climate change is no longer a distant threat, but a present reality that’s reshaping the insurance landscape across the United…
The Book Look: Enterprise Intelligence
Every once in a while, a book comes along that contains such innovative ideas that I find myself whispering “wow”…
How to Build a Robust Data Architecture for Scalable Business Growth
In the digital age, businesses rely on high-quality, easily accessible data to guide all manner of decisions and encourage growth.…
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…
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,…