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DataEd Slides: The Importance of Metadata

Data-Ed Online: The Importance of Metadata from DATAVERSITY To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice […]

How a Modern Data Engineering Stack Can Help Create a Data-Driven Culture

Creating a collaborative, data-driven culture is one of the most important goals of many modern organizations. However, access to the data and data processing tools remains restricted to the selected few technical users or upper management echelons. Data-driven culture cannot exist without the democratization of the data. Data democratization certainly does not mean unrestricted access to all […]

Why Data Quality Problems Plague Most Organizations (and What to Do About It)

For business leaders to make informed decisions, they need high-quality data. Unfortunately, most organizations – across all industries – have Data Quality problems that are directly impacting their company’s performance.   Case in point: In a recent survey conducted by my company, practitioners were asked about the issues that plague their work, how much they trust their organization’s […]

The Trend Toward Emphasizing Data Minimization

With GDPR being the “shot heard ’round the world,” the digital industry, the regulators, and the courts have developed and readjusted the way in which we need to think about this revolutionary body of law. Through this experience, I’ve had a few flashback analogies to Y2K: Leading up to the event, it was a period […]

How to Become a Data Steward

An essential role in any data-driven organization, a data steward is expected to manage and protect valuable data resources while ensuring that the integrity of the data remains intact. A steward must ensure that the data is useful to the company and meets its business objectives. Data stewards are also responsible for monitoring the data […]

RWDG Slides: Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data Governance

Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data Governance from DATAVERSITY To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging […]