Data Speaks for Itself: Dating in the Data World
I’m sure that you know an interesting story about dating. Finding that right person is not easy and the journey often…
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Data Speaks for Itself: Fly-By-Wire Data Management
For several years, I have been an advocate for the concept of positive data control or PDC. It is the…
Data Speaks for Itself: Is Your Data Quality Management Practice Ready for AI?
While everyone is asking if their data is ready for AI, I want to ask a somewhat different question: Is…
Data Speaks for Itself: The Enterprise Architecture Medical Clinic
Note: For this issue, I have invited one of my students as a special guest contributor, Jason Minton, to be…
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 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…
Data Speaks for Itself: The Shift from Syntactic to Semantic Data Curation
My column today is a follow-up to my article “The Challenge of Data Consistency,” published in the May 2023 issue…
Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?
Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why…
Data Speaks for Itself: Is AI the Cure for Data Curation?
By now, it is clear to everyone that AI, especially generative AI, is the only topic you’re allowed to write…
Data Speaks for Itself: Data Love and Data Limerence
Now that “data” is finally having its day, data topics are blooming like jonquils in March. Data management, data governance,…