Data is Risky Business: The Importance of Fundamentals
In my September 2020 Data is Risky Business column for TDAN.com, I wrote about the strategy lessons for data that we…
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Data Speaks for Itself: Data Speaks as Product
One of the greatest contributions to the understanding of data quality and data quality management happened in the 1980s when…
What I Learned from Executing Data Quality Projects
Getting to great data quality need not be a blood sport! But there must be a method to the madness,…
What Makes a Data Element Critical? The Story of the CDE
There are always new terms being introduced in the data world. While newfangled terms like “data mesh” and “data fabric”…
Data Value Chain: Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Framework (Lego Version)
Data driven organizations are innovating faster than ever. Data Science program maturity and processes enablement is one of the reasons…
Data Management’s Next Frontier is Machine Learning-Based Data Quality
Regardless of how accurate a data system is, it yields poor results if the quality of data is bad. As…
Data Professional Introspective: What Good Data Look Like – Part 5
Let’s assume this scenario — Your organization has conducted an EDM Assessment. You now have detailed knowledge of your data…
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…