Can we trust the data on Covid-19?
Note: This article is NOT concerned with the correctness of various models that attempt to predict how Covid-19 may spread in the future. This, rightly, is the domain of epidemiologists. Our interest here is...
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How you manage data in the wild: Is your data running wild?
Is your data running wild? Sitting on the bus this morning in traffic trying to get onto the Story Bridge, I noticed a flock of roughly 20 crows flying around the roof of St...
The Power of the Business Glossary: Why Data Architects love Glossaries
Presented by David Wiebe DAMA Australia – Sydney May 2019 The capability that is Data Architecture includes the accountability for managing the common vocabulary, the Business Glossary, the list of terms used to describe...
Combating the Illusion of Progress: New Success Metrics of Data Management
Presented by Lloyd Robinson Australian Data Summit November 2018 Combating the Illusion of Progress: New Success Metrics of Data Management Defining the success criteria of data management Articulating a framework of pragmatic approaches and...
Embracing change: Education changes the value of data
“Education changed my life,” said a friend and leading academic in his retirement speech. He could say this because he was the first person—in his whole extended family—to ever go to university. Education is...
If you want your data model to be really helpful … Ask these four questions
Data modelling sometimes seems like an arcane art practiced by lore masters and mages, schooled in their mystical and mysterious practices in ivory towers with little relevance to here and now pressures of modern...