Now that’s magic!
When I was a kid growing up in the UK, Paul Daniels was THE television magician. With a combination of slick high drama illusions, close-up trickery and cheeky end-of-the-pier humour, (plus a touch of...
View ArticleThe Information Management Tube Map
Just recently, Gary Allemann posted a guest article on Nicola Askham’s Blog, which made an analogy between Data Governance and the London Tube map. (Nicola also on Twitter. See also Gary Allemann’s...
View ArticleIs Your Data Quality Boring?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEJy-xtHfHY Is this the kind of response you get when you mention to people that you work in Data Quality?! Let’s be honest here. Data Quality is good and worthy, but it...
View ArticleFive Whiskies in a Hotel: Key Questions to Get Started with Data Governance
A “foreign” colleague of mine once told me a trick his English language teacher taught him to help him remember the “questioning words” in English. (To the British, anyone who is a non-native speaker...
View ArticleData Quality Profiling: Do you trust in the Dark Arts?
Why estimating Data Quality profiling doesn’t have to be guess-work Data Management lore would have us believe that estimating the amount of work involved in Data Quality analysis is a bit of a “Dark...
View ArticleThe Quantum Computer dream could be killed by Information Management
For years now the physics community has been taking the leap into computer science through the pursuit of the quantum computer. As weird as the concepts underpinning the idea of such a device are,...
View ArticleInformation Requirements Gathering: The One Question You Must Never Ask!
Over the years, I’ve tended to find that asking any individual or group the question “What data/information do you want?” gets one of two responses: “I don’t know.” Or; “I don’t know what you mean by...
View ArticleData Quality Profiling Considerations
Data profiling is an excellent diagnostic method for gaining additional understanding of the data. Profiling the source data helps inform both business requirements definition and detailed solution...
View ArticleThe rule of 150 applied to data
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar has used his research in primates over recent decades to argue that there is a cognitive limit to the number of social relationships that an individual can maintain and...
View ArticleThe Implications of San Disk’s New Wireless Flash Drive
SanDisk’s new wireless flash drive hit the scene with mixed opinions. Some argue that it serves as a solution to transferring documents, photos, videos, and music from one mobile device to another, or...
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