Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the third and final part of a three-part series. See part one Confessions of a Concept Modeler here, and part two Creating Concept Models here. In creating a concept model, you are designing a special kind of business blueprint, one crucial for information architecture, business […]
GoodData Announces New Collaborative Data Modeling Solution
According to a recent press release, “GoodData®, a leader in end-to-end analytics solutions, today announced the release of a new web-based logical data model (LDM) modeler. The new LDM modeler brings new capabilities and tooling and enables the simplification of data modeling when starting a new data product or extending existing enterprise reporting. The web-based […]
Cloudera Delivers Open Standards Based MLOps
A new press release states, “Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, today announced an expanded set of production machine learning capabilities for MLOps is now available in Cloudera Machine Learning (CML). Organizations can manage and secure the ML lifecycle for production machine learning with CML’s new MLOps features and Cloudera SDX for models. Data scientists, […]
Decoded Data Lineage Helps Tackle Bad Data Quality
What are your outcome expectations of data lineage? No one’s just doing it for fun, after all. Generally speaking, data lineage is a major asset for: Regulatory reporting/governance; trust in decision-making; and, on-premise to cloud migrations. Data lineage tools track business data flow from originating source through all the steps in its lifecycle to destination. […]
Creating Concept Models
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. Getting Started This is the second part of a three-part series. See part one Confessions of a Concept Modeler here. In creating a concept model, you can start in any of several ways, whichever best fits your circumstances. For example, you can start by identifying terms or […]
Press Release: 24th Annual Enterprise Data World Conference Rescheduled for October
DATAVERSITY Education, LLC and DAMA International have officially rescheduled the 24th annual Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) and announced the updated agenda. The rescheduled event will be merged with DATAVERSITY’s 2020 Data Architecture Summit (DAS) and be held October 18-23, 2020, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. For more details about the program, speakers, […]
Confessions of a Concept Modeler
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the first part of a three part series: Part Two is Creating Concept Models and Part Three is The Structure of Concept Models. We work with clients across a wide variety of industry sectors and, within those sectors, subject areas often new to us. You […]
Without Improved Business Skills, a Dark Day is Coming for Data Scientists
Click here to learn more about Ted Kwartler. Each semester my Harvard University Extension class is about half business and half computer science students. As you may expect, the business pupils struggle with learning how to code. However, computer scientists feel hindered by business case studies and learning how to interact in a cross-functional group. […]
Tools for Quick Wins with Data Architecture and Data Governance
Data Governance can have various definitions, depending on the audience. To many, Data Governance consists of committee meetings and stewardship roles. To others, it focuses on technical Data Management and controls. Holistic Data Governance combines both of these aspects, and a robust Data Architecture and associated diagrams can be the “glue” that binds business and […]
The Conceptual Model Strikes Back!
“You must unlearn what you have learned” (Master Yoda) The “conceptual” level of Data Modeling has been a stepchild for many years and is mostly forgotten in fast-paced delivery projects today. Since the mid-nineties the legacy toolbox basically offered software-engineering inspired diagramming tools, and they did not communicate well on the business level. Fortunately, a […]