Several years ago, I was sitting at a conference table with a group of federal employees to discuss their data analytics and reporting requirements. The reports we were building were part of a data warehouse with more than 100 valid measurements. “What
Category: data governance
Recently my teenage daughter’s iPhone was out of memory, and she asked if I could format it. That wasn’t an issue, but when I went to create the backup, I noticed something strange. Over 3GB was being occupied by over 800 photos and
Entity resolution requires strategy, particularly in weeding out duplicate records stored within the same data system. The very nature of finding these duplicates requires commonality among certain attributes like full names, addresses, birth dates and gender. For the most part, these attributes
We have bugs. No, not the software coding kind, but the creeping six-legged variety; the kind you find in your bathtub as you enter for the morning shower. Thankfully, we don’t have many of them yet, but with spring already here, it’s
The “F-identity”, as described by Rich Murnane, is the concept of using a social networking account like Facebook to share important tidbits of personal data to other authorized sites and users. In this manner, a person would no longer need to enter
“I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” — E.J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic, in 1910 “BP Exploration & Production Inc. does not propose to utilize new techniques or unusual
IT projects cannot be conducted as a town-hall democracy in which every individual ranging from the highest ranking executive to the lowest menial laborer gets his or her say in the final product. At the opposite extreme, projects should not be funded