Some years ago, my husband and I were watching TV when a news flash broke into the regular programming. There was a gas explosion in a residential neighborhood across the …
Data Modelling For Analytics Using Timeless Techniques
Data wrangling is the process of gathering, selecting, and transforming data to answer an analytical question. Also known as data cleaning or “munging”, legend has it that this wrangling costs …
Why Can’t We Just Have One Data Team?
Learnings from more than a decade of experience in this realm by Michiel van Staden, Data Analytics Leader/Speaker/Listener & currently Data Analytics Lead @ Absa banking group in South Africa …
What Will Your Data Strategy Look Like?
Following my panel appearance at the recent IRM Enterprise Data and BI & Analytics European Conference where we discussed data strategy and, myself and fellow panel members were named CDO Lions! …
Are Data Quality Problems Impacting Your Organization?
Information quality problems are all around us. We feel the impact every day, even if we don’t recognize them as data quality issues. They range from seemingly innocent mistakes that …
Is The “Data Asset” Really Different?
I recently presented a seminar at an event called “Data, the vital organisation enabler” Information is at the Heart of ALL of the Business during which I raised the question: “Is …
The Data Changemakers: Sri Kanthadai, Global Insights & Data Lead, Capgemini
The Data Changemakers series is a set of interviews and interactions with people who have spent their careers working in or around data and data management initiatives. They have a …
Data Literacy Is An Organizational Practice
We don’t acquire the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic by ourselves or for ourselves alone. We largely read what others have written, and write for others to read. In …
Are We Entering The Last Chapter Of The History Of Analytics?
This week I gave a TED style presentation on the History of Analytics to a bunch of our Digital Solution Architects… 20 minutes, a whiteboard, and the truth, what’s not …
Turning Data From A Cost To A Benefit
Data has been a hot topic for organisations for some time. Now that volumes of data are increasing exponentially, the importance of good data to allow organisations to achieve their …
Data Pitch is Open for Applications!
Data Pitch are excited to announce the open call for startup applications, which will run over the next two months and close on the 1st October 2017. Applications can be …
DAMA International’s Certified Data Management Professional Program
DAMA International is the global membership organisation for Data Management professionals and has been around as a central organisation for close on 30 years (first chapter opened in 1980). As …
Gorilla vs. Guerilla Modelling
I often run sessions at which a range of people, from individual contributors and subject matter experts, through to senior managers and even CxO-level executives (CEO, CFO, …) eagerly and …
Themes from a Chief Data Officer Forum – the 180 day perspective
Time flies as Virgil observed some 2,045 years ago. A rather shorter six months back I attended the inaugural IRM(UK) Chief Data Officer Executive Forum and recently I returned for …
Is IT Splitting up?
A recent report by Forrester, revealed that more than half of companies with 10% year on year revenue growth have appointed Chief Data Officers (CDOs). Although overall only 45% of …
The Data Model Scorecard Category 4 of 10:
How Well Does the Model Leverage Generic Structures? An application’s flexibility and data quality depend quite a bit on the underlying data model. In other words, a good data model …