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Documenting Data Models

Click here to learn more about author Michael Blaha. Once you’ve created a data model, how do you document it? You need to deliver the model’s content to others – to business sponsors, other developers, and posterity for purposes that you may not envision. This article looks at options for documenting data models and their […]

Execs Starting to Take Charge of Modeling and Analyzing Data

by Angela Guess Hugo Moreno reports in Forbes, “According to a recent Forbes Insights executive brief, “Decisions, Decisions: How Leading Firms Are Arming Frontline Executives With Data-Driven Insight,” sponsored by Qlik, business executives are no longer satisfied with the long waiting periods, high costs and questionable quality of data- driven decision support being developed on […]

Names, Naming, and Ontology

Click here to learn more about author Adam Pease. Last month I looked at representing some simple statements with binary relations. This month, let’s look at what is possibly an even more fundamental issue, that of naming. It comes up often in knowledge representation and people can have very strong opinions about the “right” name […]