Who Needs A Data Model Anyway?
These days, there is much conversation about the necessity of the data model. The data model has been around for…
NIDG Perspective: A Trusted Trainer for Data
This column is a stand-in for a new column that will be announced for the 3rd month each quarter starting…
Auditing Database Access and Change
The increasing burden of complying with government and industry regulations imposes significant, time-consuming requirements on IT projects and applications. And…
Through the Looking Glass: The Sounds of Data, Part 2
In Part 1 of The Sounds of Data, I wrote about the power of sonification, which translates data into sounds…
Get Rid of Data Silos
All business is, to some extent, a data-driven endeavour. Whether it be marketing, planning, or customer service, knowledge is power.…
A Holistic Approach to Govern Data
The concept of being holistic embraces a comprehensive and interconnected view of various aspects of life, considering them as a…
Data is Risky Business: Data Ethics and Governance in the Age of LLMs
In the last few months, we have seen the wave of Artificial Intelligence break on the shores of wide-scale business…
Privacy, Security & Machine Learning
Data privacy and security matter. Given this, it will be a big deal if machine learning can make them easier…
Data Centric Revolution: Is a Knowledge Ontology the Missing Link?
You would think that after knocking around in semantics and knowledge graphs for over two decades I’d have had a…
Lack of Proper Test Data Poses Bottleneck
The world is in a digital revolution. Business models are increasingly based on software applications. IT is operating at a…