Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we’re talking with John Ladley, the Principal at Sonrai, about his love of flying, how he built an early career in data, […]
John Ladley
John Ladley John Ladley is a highly experienced advisor and advocate for organizations looking for sustainable value from information and data. His experience and knowledge is balanced between treating data as an essential component of modern business and economies, and the practical solution of business problems. John’s books are the authoritative sources for Data and […]
2023 DATAVERSITY Top 20
As the year draws to a close, we here at DATAVERSITY have an annual tradition of digging deep into our data and reflecting on the hits and misses. What was the most popular Data Management content on dataversity.net and our training center over the past 12 months? Which core topics did you – our data […]
Data Governors, First Govern Yourselves
Data Governance, as currently practiced, is failing. There have been some successes, but by and large, even these efforts have fallen short. Worse, many of those tasked with contributing to Data Governance find the effort painful. We have enormous sympathy for data governors. (We use the term “data governors” – DGs – as the most […]
What Is a Data Warehouse?
A data warehouse is a centralized repository that stores and provides decision-support data and aids workers engaged in reporting, query, and analysis. Data warehouses represent architected data schemas that make it easy to find relevant data consistently and research details in a stable environment. Data sources, including data lakes, can pipe data to a data warehouse. […]
2023: Mitigating Data Debt by Knowing or by Guessing?
One of the newer data buzzwords is “data debt.” Actually, it is approximately 10 years old, and it became popular ever since agile people realized that postponing things creates not only technical debt, but certainly also data debt. Will we, in 2023, be better at not creating so much data debt, and will it be […]
Data Governance Framework: 5 Key Elements
Like many roles and operations that have emerged in the digital age, Data Governance is often misunderstood. Some might confuse it with Data Management. Others might see it as an extension of IT. How can you communicate the role of Data Governance and ensure you implement it successfully? At DATAVERSITY’s Enterprise Data Governance Online event, data […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2022
What is Data Strategy? “Well, the short answer is, it’s the data chapter of your business strategy,” said John Ladley, consultant and author of the book Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program. Contrary to popular belief, the one thing it isn’t, he said, is a technology procurement plan. […]
Live Online Training: Data Strategy Bootcamp
DATAVERSITY Online Training – Professional Education at Your Convenience Course Dates: May 14-15, 2024Course Time: 11 AM – 6 PM Eastern / 8 AM – 3 PM PacificCourse Price: $1,000 Early Bird Price through April 26, 2024. $1,200 after April 26, 2024Course CEUs: 12 Last day to register: Sunday, May 12, 2024 In the rapidly […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced for Enterprise Data Governance Online 2022
November 30, 2021 – DATAVERSITY announced the agenda and opened registration today for the seventh annual Enterprise Data Governance Online (EDGO). This free online event will take place at datagovernanceonline.com on January 26, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. EDGO is designed to teach anyone working with data how to plan, implement, manage, […]