The Data-Centric Revolution: OWL as a Discipline
Many developers pooh-pooh OWL (the dyslexic acronym for the Web Ontology Language). Many decry it as “too hard,” which seems…
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Business Leaders Need to Know About Data Modeling
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that data-driven decisions have influence over all our lives over the last two years. But…
Data Modeling for Quality
In this article, I describe a method of modelling data so that it meets business requirements. Central to this method…
Big Data Modeling Improves Business Intelligence
Through big data modeling, data-driven organizations can better understand and manage the complexities of big data, improve business intelligence (BI),…
Improve Data Governance with These Data Modeling Tips
Data Governance describes the practices and processes organizations use to manage the access, use, quality and security of an organizations…
Stages and Types of Data Models
Three different types of data models exist, each of which plays a distinct role in data modeling. They help an…
A Beginner’s Guide to NoSQL
Whether you’re opening a website or running a business, it’s very likely that you’re going to be using some sort…
Data Management 20/20: Building a Data Modeling Center of Excellence
Data governance is considered an oversight activity for work pertaining to the creation and management of data. That is, what…
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…
Data Modeling and Database Design
Data modeling and database design is an in-demand career path, and database design is a crucial skill set that experienced…