Through the Looking Glass: Sounds of Data – Part 1
“There is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 I know this biblical quote has serious implications. But here, I…
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Through the Looking Glass: Care of the Soul of Data
I am innately distrustful of buzzwords. I recall in the early 1990’s that the hot management trend was “self-directed teams.”…
Through the Looking Glass: Supply-Side Data Governance
Fit for Purpose data has been a foundational concept of Data Governance for as long as I’ve been in the…
Through the Looking Glass: Suspending Judgement on Synthetic Data
Synthetic Data is, according to Gartner and other industry oracles, “hot, hot, hot.” In fact, according to Gartner, “60 percent…
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,”…
Through the Looking Glass: Data Discovery, Learned Machines, and Strange Loops
Recently I had the privilege of taking part in a panel discussion about Data Discovery with several distinguished colleagues from…
Through the Looking Glass: Caught in the Web of Data
“There is another undefined frontier, that of time. A living language is in a continuous state of change, of ‘slow…
Through the Looking Glass: Data Owners and Other Fallacies
I vividly remember reading this passage from Bob Seiner’s TDAN.com article “Things I Think I Think about Data Governance”, from…
Through the Looking Glass: Data Stewards in the Realm of Gondor
Welcome to “Through the Looking Glass,” my new column on TDAN.com. In this and future columns, I will look at…
Towards Data Governance’s 4th Era – Part III – Providing the Structure for Invention
As I begin this article, it strikes me that the entire world is focusing on data, the data about COVID-19.…