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By Christine Denney One of my favorite songs from a musical has the line ”525,600 minutes; How do you measure, measure a year?” And how many songs have been written about the “measure of a man”? These are all catchy tunes, but after a recent remodeling experience, I was starting to question the “measure of a measure”. It...
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By Sue Geuens The biggest buzz word or phrase doing the rounds these days is Single View. Single View of Customer, of Product, of Services, etc etc, etc …. But, having spent many years trying to “build” such views, I am left with the feeling that we are failing. I have my ear to...
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By Sue Geuens, CDMP Last month I was lucky enough to attend a webinar by Dr Peter Aiken on Reference and Master Data Management. As the session progressed we hit a slide in which Peter discusses the Gender Codes of Canada. There are 9 (or was it 17) codes – ranging from what most...
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By Sue Geuens, CDMP Recently I’ve been trolling the internet for any and all information I can find about Data Governance. What has been driving me mad is the lack of quality in the documentation I have found. So many of these articles, white papers, case studies, etc rant and rave on about good...
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by Karen Lopez This is the third post in a series on Normalization Myths. You’ll want to read the prior posts first. Normalization Myths that Really Make Me Crazy – Introduction to a Rant Myth 1 – Normalization: Friend, Foe, or Frenemy The Survey In my survey of Twitter users on their feelings about...
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A Fable with a moral by David Plotkin Once upon a time, there was a company. This company had a terrible time recognizing their customers and understanding what products those customers had. The reasons for this weren’t hard to understand. The company’s main business was selling insurance, and each type...
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by Karen Lopez I recently blogged the introduction to this series: Normalization Myths that Really Make Me Crazy – Introduction to a Rant. You should check that introduction out for the background on this post. It has caveats and warnings that you’ll need to keep handy while you read this series. I’m starting with...
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By Christine Denney I unapologetically admit to being a die-hard data geek, which makes my next statements a bit unnerving (downright disturbing, in fact). I am being haunted by statements made during a recent conference keynote – even to the point where they have taken over my thought processes. I suppose that should be a...
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by John Biderman When President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned construction of the Panama Canal (bear with me; this will be made relevant to data topics shortly) it was overseen by a committee in Washington who hired a seasoned engineer, John Findley Wallace, and dispatched him to the isthmus with the directive to “make the dirt...
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by Karen Lopez At Enterprise Data World I gave a Lightning Talk, Karen’s List of the Most Irritating Normalization Myths. This was a fast-paced, auto-advancing slides presentation with 10 slides covered in five minutes. I covered the types of things I’ve heard in design reviews that either didn’t make sense or repeated some urban...
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