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Where Do Data Catalogs Fit in Metadata Management?

Alation

In an earlier blog, I defined a data catalog as “a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses.”.

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Business Strategies for Deploying Disruptive Tech: Generative AI and ChatGPT

Rocket-Powered Data Science

First, don’t do something just because everyone else is doing it – there needs to be a valid business reason for your organization to be doing it, at the very least because you will need to explain it objectively to your stakeholders (employees, investors, clients).

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What is a Data Mesh?

DataKitchen

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. DataOps helps the data mesh deliver greater business agility by enabling decentralized domains to work in concert. . But first, let’s define the data mesh design pattern.

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Data Strategy and Decentralization: A Data Architect’s View

Alation

It’s the basis for cryptocurrency, but also has applications in virtually every industry, from finance (capital markets) to retail (supply chain management) and health sciences (medical drug development). How are blockchain organizations tackling data management? What is your data strategy and how did you begin to implement it?

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What Is Data Curation?

Alation

Data curation is a term that has recently become a common part of data management vocabulary. Data curation is important in today’s world of data sharing and self-service analytics, but I think it is a frequently misused term. Curating data involves much more than storing data in a shared database.

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RDF-Star: Metadata Complexity Simplified

Ontotext

And yeah, the real-world relationships among the entities represented in the data had to be fudged a bit to fit in the counterintuitive model of tabular data, but, in trade, you get reliability and speed. Ironically, relational databases only imply relationships between data points by whatever row or column they exist in.

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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

Alation

How do you initiate change within a system containing many thousands of people and millions of bytes of data? During my time as a data specialist at American Family Insurance, it became clear that we had to move away from the way things had been done in the past. So you can probably imagine: The company manages a lot of data.