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…
Data Modeling Columns
Data Modeling Columns
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…
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”…
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,…
Crossing the Data Divide: AI Data Assistants — A Data Leader’s Force Multiplier
The focus of my last column, titled Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave, was on…
The Book Look: Cassandra Data Modeling and Schema Design
I love writing this column for TDAN. It lets me discuss what I learned from a newly released data management…
A Step Ahead: Hierarchies – Boon or Bane?
This is a follow-up article to last quarter’s “A Step Ahead: Categories – Boon or Bane.” There’s an old cliché…
A Step Ahead: Categories – Boon or Bane?
Do you love or hate organizing papers and objects in your home? For those that hate it, why do you…
Data Professional Introspective: Data Provider Management – Part 3
In Part 1, we discussed the front end of the lifecycle – developing requirements for, and selecting data sources. In…