I work with some fabulous people! They are team players, motivated and ready to take on the world. These are the Millennial Generation or Generation Y. These people were born in the technology age and expect data to be at their fingertips, which gives information technology (IT) a bit of heartburn when it comes
Netflix has been on quite the run over the last year. Its stock has exploded as its customer base nears 40 million. What's more, the company has positioned itself well with highly regarded original content and a strong foothold in the streaming business. Despite its success, complacent is not a
In my previous post, I used a game show metaphor for one aspect of metadata management, namely making sure table definitions are not ambiguously labeled. In this post, I will use name tags as a metaphor to discuss an important intersection of metadata management and master data management (MDM), an
Although its simplest definition is “data about data,” metadata can be better thought of as a label that provides a definition, description or context for data. Common examples include relational table definitions and flat file layouts. More detailed examples include conceptual and logical data models. Among its other possible uses,
The second part of my data governance primer series addresses ways to "mind your metadata." I can just hear the collective groans, and perhaps a stifled yawn. Sorry, but metadata collection is one of those necessary evils that may not be fun, but having it available as a resource to
Jim Harris (@ocdqblog) just wants to buy a blue shirt. Why does e-commerce make it so hard?
Jim Harris (@ocdqblog) on bursting your filter bubble.
In my previous post, I looked into the magic mirrors of business leaders, more commonly called dashboards, as one example of how data visualization is used. In this post, I want to look at what we use to look — our eyes — and how they process whatever data we
As Beth Schultz recently blogged, Data Visualizations Beg Your Attention. And as Noreen Seebacher recently blogged, A Picture Explains a Lot of Data. Although I agree with both concepts, and I recommend reading more than just the titles of those posts, I couldn’t help but wonder if what should be begging more
