Data Speaks for Itself: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
I had a great experience attending the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in Cambridge this July. It was truly enlightening to hear from so many experienced data leaders. This...
View ArticleData Speaks for Itself: Waldo, Where are You?
Almost every child knows about the cute search-and-find Waldo with the red-striped shirt and cap hidden in the crowd. But something you may not know is that there was another much earlier Waldo. It was...
View ArticleData Speaks for Itself: The Path Less Traveled
As you can probably tell from my previous columns, my thinking lately has been very focused on the issue of data curation and data governance automation. I have always been troubled by the amount of...
View ArticleData Speaks for Itself: The Challenge of Data Consistency
Data quality management (DQM) has advanced considerably over the years. The full extent of the problem was first recognized during the data warehouse movement in the 1980s. Out of this, dimensional...
View ArticleData Speaks for Itself: Placing Data Governance in Context
Yes, let’s talk about data governance, that thing we love to hate. I just attended the 17th Annual Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in July, and there, I heard many creative...
View ArticleData 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, data literacy, data strategy, data analytics, data engineering, data mesh,...
View ArticleData 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 about. It seems to have impacted every area of information technology, so, I will try my...
View ArticleData 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 would I even ask this question in the article title? The reason I ask it...
View ArticleData 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 of this newsletter. In that article, I discussed how semantic encoding (also called...
View ArticleData 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 in the August 2024 issue of this newsletter, I argued how the adoption of...
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