Continuous Delivery for Data Pipelines: A Practical Guide
What Is Continuous Delivery? Continuous delivery (CD) refers to a software engineering approach where teams produce software in short cycles,…
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The Data-Centric Revolution: The Year of the Knowledge Graph
Signals are converging and leading me to believe that 2025 is the Year of the Knowledge Graph. But before we…
Through the Looking Glass: On the Data (and Lack of Such) About Busking
I started playing cello in fourth grade, in the suburbs of Hartford, Conn. I can’t remember when I discovered that…
The Sustainability Liability No One’s Pricing Into AI
Where Risk Gets Mispriced It’s easy to think of AI as clean. Digital. Intangible. It lives in the cloud, responds…
Principles of Data Value Delivery
I recently published on this site a document I call the “Manifesto for Data Value Delivery” (aka, the “Data Value…
The Canal of Data: Governance at the Source, Course, and Consumption
Imagine data governance as the management of a vast water canal system. Just as water flows from its headwaters through…
Embracing “Data Town Plans” as a Bridge Between the Business and IT (Part 2)
In the previous article, we looked at two age-old problems facing the IT world. The first related to an issue…
Eyes on Data: Best Practices and Excellence in Data Management Matter More Than Ever
In our increasingly digital economy, data is the oxygen that powers transformation, fuels artificial intelligence, drives regulatory compliance, and sharpens…
The Art of Lean Governance: Future-Proofing During Times of High Uncertainty
Current economic forecasts predict that the odds of a global recession will increase in 2025 due to various factors. A…
The Anatomy of AI Trust in Your Data Stack
As artificial intelligence (AI) progresses from offering suggestions to making autonomous decisions, organizations face a fundamental trust challenge: Can you…