Reversing the negativity of data quality
Are data quality practitioners too negative? Dylan Jones (@dataqualitypro) weighs in.
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Visualize yourself
Facts about Google astonish me. For instance, one in ten of its searches is on a person. So says Todd Silverstein, CEO of Vizify, a personal data visualization company. Imagine if Googling a person didn't just return a home page or a LinkedIn profile, but a visual, 360-degree view of
There’s only one right way to do data governance
Jim Harris (@ocdqblog) argues that there's only one right way to do data governance.
Bridge to Nowhere: Applications Without Data Management
Stuck on the Fort Duquesne Bridge in Pittsburgh one afternoon during rush hour, I was pondering a recent conversation with an old client. The client, a mid-sized financial institution, is considering master data management (MDM) to help them better understand their customer relationships.
The hidden cost of unplanned setup time
Do you really know how poor data quality affects your daily productivity? Dylan Jones explains how to measure it.
The big buzz of Big Data: preventing big adoption?
It seems that more than a few people believe that Big Data is all hype. Leena Rao of TechCrunch writes that the term is "outdated, and consists of an overly general set of words that don’t reflect what is actually happening now with data."
Data governance by fiat
Who said you can’t mandate data governance? Who says it has to be some smarmy, politically correct, incremental pitter-patter of a tiptoe into the bomb-laden lion’s den of IT super-forces? How come so many other rules are blindly followed, up and down the corporate ladder? The police have rules, don’t
20 encounters of the information management kind - tuning queries for reasonable response time
Joyce Norris-Montanari on tuning queries for reasonable response time.