All in the Data: My, My, Hey, Hey – The Value of Data is Here to Stay
Neil Young waxed poetically when he proclaimed that “It’s better to burn out than it is to rust” in his…
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Practical Points from the DGPO: Things to Know About Stewardship
Stewardship is one of the foundational components of a successful data governance (DG) program but it can also be one…
Data Starvation and Your Data Metabolism
David Crosby, of super group fame with Stills, Nash and Young, once said that you have to write about something…
Taking the Data Blinders Off
Business has a fundamental problem with data quality. In some places it’s merely painful, in others it’s nearly catastrophic. Why…
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…
The Data Catalog Has Risen
If you have been around the IT industry for as long as I have, you have seen technologies and ideas…
Make An Impact: Hidden Reasons Why Your Data Analysis Has No Value
In most of our organizations we have people doing data analysis all over the place. From very technical SQL queries…
Data Cleansing Vs. Data Enrichment – What is the Difference?
Tucked away in portals across the internet, in different formats, with bad headers, strange encoding, and more – the world…
The Antidote is Facts – Facts Require Data
Back in 2017, I wrote an article titled There are No Facts … Without Data. It is time to revisit…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: Big Data, More Data, BIG Issue
More, more, more! We are culturally conditioned to want more. More money, more fun, more pleasure, more accomplishment, more intelligence,…