Recently, John and Mark brought the Rock Bottom Data Feed to the Data Governance & Information Quality (DGIQ) conference in Washington, DC. We let out our nets to see what we could catch, so to...
Sometimes when recording interviews we ended up with more material than we could use. Certainly not because it wasn’t interesting, but rather because we chatted longer than was practical to include or because we veered...
Data is a new type of business asset from a legal perspective. The traditional legal methodologies don’t fit. You have confidentiality obligations, licensing and usage considerations, and data quality requirements, especially when it comes to...
When you look in the dictionary between “hard place” and “rock” you will find “analytics management.” Data Consumers demand high-quality data. Data Producers say it’s good enough to run the business so it’s good enough...
Everyone says that data has value, but what does that mean? How do you measure that value? This week we talk a little less about people and a little more about business and monetization. Our...
According to some research, about half of large organizations are“Data Driven,” meaning they are “driving business innovation with data.” According to other research, that number is about half of that. But wait, isn’t that what...
For so many of us, Data Quality is like a healthy diet and daily exercise. You want the benefits, but you don’t want to do what it takes to get them. Interrogating the data is...
So many times we get our words reversed when naming subject areas. Instead of Data Ethics, for example, we should be talking about ethics as applied to data. This ties our interest to the broader...
The most common fears about artificial intelligence are from movies, and while there are reasons for concern, Skynet becoming sentient and terminating humanity aren’t among them. A lot of great progress is being made in...
Data is as much about people as it is about technology, if not more. It’s anthropology. We need a transformational approach to data that focuses on culture and discipline. For example, companies are jumping onto...