Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?
TDAN
MAY 1, 2024
Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why would I even ask this question in the article title?
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TDAN
MAY 1, 2024
Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why would I even ask this question in the article title?
TDAN
MAY 17, 2022
There is… but one… Data Governance. Maybe you are one who believes that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0,
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NOVEMBER 5, 2019
There is … but one … Data Governance. Maybe you are one of those that believe that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0, […].
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Octopai
APRIL 19, 2021
Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.
erwin
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Defining Data Governance. to Data Governance 2.0
TDAN
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
As I write this, I can almost hear you wail “No, no, we don’t have too much metadata, we don’t have nearly enough! We have several projects in flight to expand our use of metadata.” Sorry, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. You are on a fool’s errand that will just provide […].
datapine
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Engineered to be the “Swiss Army Knife” of data development, these processes prepare your organization to face the challenges of digital age data, wherever and whenever they appear. Data quality refers to the assessment of the information you have, relative to its purpose and its ability to serve that purpose.
Alation
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
As data drives more and more of the modern economy, data governance and data management are racing to keep up with an ever-expanding range of requirements, constraints and opportunities. Prior to the Big Data revolution, companies were inward-looking in terms of data. THE NEED FOR METADATA TOOLS.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. Apache Kafka transfers data without validating the information in the messages. Kafka does not examine the metadata of your messages. What’s next?
Octopai
JANUARY 31, 2021
The particular episode we recommend looks at how WeWork struggled with understanding their data lineage so they created a metadata repository to increase visibility. Agile Data. Another podcast we think is worth a listen is Agile Data. Techcopedia follows the latest trends in data and provides comprehensive tutorials.
Domino Data Lab
APRIL 3, 2019
Paco Nathan ‘s latest column dives into data governance. This month’s article features updates from one of the early data conferences of the year, Strata Data Conference – which was held just last week in San Francisco. Introduction. Welcome back to our monthly burst of themes and conferences.
Alation
JULY 22, 2021
Our platform combines data insights with human intelligence in pursuit of this mission. Susannah Barnes, an Alation customer and senior data governance specialist at American Family Insurance, introduced our team to faculty at the School of Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM-SOIS), her alma mater.
TDAN
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The concept of “walking the data factory” drew a great deal of interest during our recent DGPO webinar on data classification as part of a holistic governance program. We discussed ways to connect the stove-piped worlds of data governance and information governance under a common governance classification.
AWS Big Data
APRIL 19, 2023
We took this a step further by creating a blueprint to create smart recommendations by linking similar data products using graph technology and ML. In this post, we showed how an organization can augment a data catalog with additional metadata by using ML and Neptune with an automated process. His Amazon author page
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OCTOBER 18, 2022
The post The Data Warehouse is Dead, Long Live the Data Warehouse, Part I appeared first on Data Virtualization blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information. In times of potentially troublesome change, the apparent paradox and inner poetry of these.
TDAN
APRIL 6, 2021
There is an ever-increasing awareness of concerns about data privacy, corporate data breaches, increasing demands for regulatory compliance. There are also emerging concerns about the ways that big data analytics potentially influence and bias automated decision-making.
Domino Data Lab
JULY 22, 2019
data science’s emergence as an interdisciplinary field – from industry, not academia. why data governance, in the context of machine learning is no longer a “dry topic” and how the WSJ’s “global reckoning on data governance” is potentially connected to “premiums on leveraging data science teams for novel business cases”.
TDAN
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Back in 2017, I wrote an article titled There are No Facts … Without Data. The overwhelmingly positive response to that article validated for me that most people believed my premise to be true. It is time to revisit that topic. I was very thankful to see that. In this anti-fact world (watch cable news […].
IBM Big Data Hub
JULY 28, 2022
Metadata enrichment is about scaling the onboarding of new data into a governed data landscape by taking data and applying the appropriate business terms, data classes and quality assessments so it can be discovered, governed and utilized effectively. Scalability and elasticity. Public API.
Data Virtualization
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Since its first incarnation almost 35 years ago in my IBM Systems Journal article, the data warehouse (DW) has remained a key architectural pattern for decision-making support. The post Weaving Architectural Patterns: I – Data Fabric appeared first on Data Virtualization blog.
Data Virtualization
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Since its first incarnation almost 35 years ago in my IBM Systems Journal article, the data warehouse (DW) has remained a key architectural pattern for decision-making support. The post Weaving Architectural Patterns: I – Data Fabric appeared first on Data Virtualization blog.
TDAN
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Do you love or hate organizing papers and objects in your home? For those that hate it, why do you hate it? I like the results of organizing: reduction of clutter and ease of finding things. But I hate the process of organizing. The reason usually has to do with the fact that the object […]
TDAN
JUNE 15, 2021
From tip to tail, we’re changing the way users on our platform access, enrich, manage, and monitor the data flowing through their environment. My company has been talking a lot about our products because there has been some incredible progress on what we’re delivering to the organizations we work with. But what’s the underlying stuff?
TDAN
JUNE 21, 2022
Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. It only took a few months to recognize that there was an audience for an “online” publication focused on data administration. […].
TDAN
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Companies are increasingly focused on finding ways to connect to new and valuable sources of data in order to enhance their analytical capabilities, enrich their models, or deliver more insight to their business units. Due to the increased demand for new data sources, companies are also looking at their internal data differently.
TDAN
MAY 31, 2022
The Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912. Four days later on April 14th, the ship collides with a submerged iceberg and sinks in less than three hours. The captain and his crew had insufficient knowledge of the danger that lurked beneath the sea. This lack of awareness led to the […].
TDAN
MAY 3, 2022
The road to creating business value through a well-oiled data management strategy can be long and challenging. A successful data management strategy is one that generates value rapidly and unlocks new data-driven insights.
Alation
MARCH 21, 2023
To fully realize data’s value, organizations in the travel industry need to dismantle data silos so that they can securely and efficiently leverage analytics across their organizations. What is big data in the travel and tourism industry? What are common data challenges for the travel industry?
AWS Big Data
JULY 28, 2023
Data management and governance Addressing the challenges mentioned requires a combination of technical, operational, and legal measures. Organizations need to develop robust data governance practices, establish clear procedures for handling deletion requests, and maintain ongoing compliance with GDPR regulations.
Domino Data Lab
AUGUST 8, 2019
Paco Nathan ‘s latest monthly article covers Sci Foo as well as why data science leaders should rethink hiring and training priorities for their data science teams. In this episode I’ll cover themes from Sci Foo and important takeaways that data science teams should be tracking. Introduction. What’s a Foo?
TDAN
JANUARY 5, 2021
A recent report on data culture released by Alation shows that enterprises continue to make progress toward creating a data culture even while the pandemic has forced them to make tough decisions. More than half of data professionals believe […]. But things are looking up.
TDAN
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
There have been a couple of different things converged in my media feeds that highlight a key issue that all data management professionals and leaders in information management need to be conscious of – Group Think. This manifests itself in at least two ways in the following examples I’ll use to illustrate my points. Each […].
Alation
JANUARY 25, 2022
As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.
TDAN
JUNE 30, 2020
About a week ago, I was teaching a data modeling class, and an attendee asked me to explain the concept of a data catalog. However, I had recently read the book, The Data Catalog: Sherlock Holmes Data Sleuthing for Analytics by […]. Like a lot of hype-related terms in IT, there is more than one definition.
Alation
JANUARY 17, 2023
In this article, I will explain the modern data stack in detail, list some benefits, and discuss what the future holds. What Is the Modern Data Stack? The modern data stack is a combination of various software tools used to collect, process, and store data on a well-integrated cloud-based data platform.
Grooper
OCTOBER 23, 2019
By paying close attention to changing business environments, they’re quick to implement changes to the infrastructure required for data-driven results. What to expect in this article: How enterprise information management is the surest path for making data a key asset for business growth and innovation. How you compare.
O'Reilly on Data
MAY 21, 2019
Thus, many developers will need to curate data, train models, and analyze the results of models. With that said, we are still in a highly empirical era for ML: we need big data, big models, and big compute. A typical data pipeline for machine learning. Data results from a Twitter poll.
Rocket-Powered Data Science
MARCH 20, 2023
Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Instead, what we really need is for our business to run at the speed of data. Source: [link] I will finish with three quotes.
Alation
JULY 6, 2021
Common Data Governance Challenges. Every enterprise runs into data governance challenges eventually. Issues like data visibility, quality, and security are common and complex. Data governance is often introduced as a potential solution. And one enterprise alone can generate a world of data.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 4, 2023
When workers get their hands on the right data, it not only gives them what they need to solve problems, but also prompts them to ask, “What else can I do with data?” ” through a truly data literate organization. What is data democratization?
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