Beyond Data’s Gender Gap: Equity Initiatives
In the last installment of this column, we looked at the myriad of identities that are often under-accounted for or…
Data Mesh and Unified Data Access Governance
In her groundbreaking article, How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani made the…
Data Quality Is In the Eye of the Beholder
We know the phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”1 In this article, I will apply it to…
Data is Risky Business: Thinking the Unthinkable
This isn’t the column I was intending to write for TDAN.com. I had something else nearly ready that was expanding…
Netflix has Innovated with Data
When Netflix unveiled its DVD-by-mail plan back in 1998, it seemed like a quirky aberration in an economic landscape thoroughly…
It Could Cost You Billions If You Have the Wrong Data Privacy Strategy
Why Differential Privacy Overcomes Many of the Fatal Flaws of De-Identification and Data Masking If data is the new oil, then…
Big Data Helps Build Better Governance
The use of data to make more informed decisions is nothing new to government agencies. For years, governments have utilized…
Through the Looking Glass: The Context of Out-of-Tune Data
Back when I studied cello in college, I would seclude myself in a tiny practice room (we called them “cells,”…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Incremental Stealth Legacy Modernization
I’m reading the book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti. It’s a good book. Plenty of pragmatic advice, both…
Current State Analysis of Your Data – Part 3 – Data Culture
This article is the third in a series taking a deep dive on how to do a current state analysis…