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…
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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…
Why You Should Care About Data Modeling
Many software developers distrust data architecture practices such as data modeling. They associate these practices with rigid and bureaucratic processes…
How to Be a Data Shaman
My new book, Data Model Storytelling[i], describes how data models can be used to tell the story of an organization’s…
The Book Look: Data Model Storytelling
Larry Burns’ latest book, Data Model Storytelling, is all about maximizing the value of data modeling and keeping data models…
Knowledge Graphs vs Property Graphs – Part III
Part 3 completes this article series by discussing some important topics beyond the critical differentiators in the terminology and capabilities…
Relationships Are Not Verbs–Part One
In conceptual (“ontological”) data modeling, relationships describe the structure of the connections between pairs of entity types. It is therefore…
The Book Look: The Rosedata Stone
I know there is a bit of a bias when I dedicate this quarterly column to my own book ……
Conceptual Modeling Requires Conceptual and Critical Thinking
I am surprised to see a lot of people jumping straight into logical or even physical modeling and skipping conceptual…
Steps to an Effective Data Governance Structure
The quality of data used in business is more important now than ever before. Accordingly, in order for organizations to…