The State of Data Governance
In 2024, our research at Dresner Advisory Services revealed that only 32% of organizations have a formal data governance organization…
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Data Speaks for Itself: Data Quality Management in the Age of Language Models
Unsurprisingly, my last two columns discussed artificial intelligence (AI), specifically the impact of language models (LMs) on data curation. My…
Data Professional Introspective: Your Organization Can’t Create an EDM Strategy
Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans. For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Putting Knowledge Into Our Knowledge Graphs
I recently gave a presentation called “Knowledge Management and Knowledge Graphs” at a KMWorld conference, and a new picture of…
Data Is Risky Business: Structured, Unstructured (Who Cares?)
The Irish satirist Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver’s Travels” almost 300 years ago, but the story of Lemuel Gulliver’s journey to…
Data Speaks for Itself: Data Validation – Data Accuracy Imposter or Assistant?
In my last article, “The Shift from Syntactic to Semantic Data Curation and What It Means for Data Quality” published…
Eyes on Data: A Data Governance Study Bridging Industry and Academia
As autumn settles here in the northern hemisphere, with October baseball underway, the first frost arriving, and the holiday season…
All in the Data: A New Data Governance Season Is Here
As the new NFL season gets rolling, there’s a profound sense of anticipation in the air — the thrill of…
Data Professional Introspective: The Perennial Question
I’ve often encountered client staff, course students, and conference attendees who are grappling with the basic question: “What is the…
Data Crime: Cartoon Signatures
I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications,…