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Make data usability a priority on data quality for big data To help make big data analytics applications more effective, IT teams must augment conventional data quality processes with measures aimed at improving data usability for analysts. By David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity Inc.                         published: 17 Oct 2022 Data quality processes continue to become more prominent in organizations, often as part of data governance programs. For many companies, the growing interest in quality is commensurate with an increased need...

So, who killed data modelling? Chris Jackson   Oct. 4.2022 Judging by the noise on LinkedIn, it seems data modelling is in a life and death struggle. Whilst aware of the swamps left behind by lazier followers of the data lake movement, I had naively assumed that modelling was alive and well. Almost every use of data has some data model, even if only implied — though not necessarily a good model. (Personally, I’d question whether anyone who can’t describe 3NF in simple, practical terms should be working in data…) So...

The Fight for Controlled Freedom of the Data Warehouse Barr Moses   Oct.17.2022 The data gatekeeper is dead, long live the…oh no what have we done? A silent alarm rings in my head whenever I hear someone utter the phrase, “data is everyone’s responsibility.”You can just as easily translate this to mean that “data is no one’s responsibility,” too. This, readers, is what I call the “data tragedy of the commons.”Here’s why.The term tragedy of the commons comes from economic science and refers to situations where a common set of resources...