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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

Ontotext

way we package information has a lot to do with metadata. The somewhat conventional metaphor about metadata is the one of the library card. This metaphor has it that books are the data and library cards are the metadata helping us find what we need, want to know more about or even what we don’t know we were looking for.

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Best Practices for Data Catalog Implementation

Octopai

The job of data teams and data owners becomes challenging making sense of where data resides and where its origins are. For business users Data Catalogs offer a number of benefits such as better decision-making; data catalogs provide business users with quick and easy access to high-quality data.

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Data Intelligence in the Next Normal; Why, Who and When?

erwin

When the pandemic first hit, there was some negative impact on big data and analytics spending. I have long stated that data is the lifeblood of digital transformation, and if the pandemic really has accelerated digital transformation, then the trends reported in IDC’s worldwide surveys make sense.

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The Power of Graph Databases, Linked Data, and Graph Algorithms

Rocket-Powered Data Science

You should still get the book because it is a fantastic 250-page masterpiece for data scientists!) (You should still get the book because it is a fantastic 250-page masterpiece for data scientists!) As you read this, just remember the most important message: the natural data structure of the world is not rows and columns, but a graph.

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Why erwin Data Intelligence 12 led me to Quest

erwin

Last week, Quest released erwin Data Intelligence by Quest version 12.0, a pivotal release for erwin Data Intelligence customers. Industry analysts, data domain field experts and erwin Data Intelligence customer advisory board members have all shown positive early reactions to its new capabilities in several key areas.

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Minimizing Supply Chain Disruptions with Advanced Analytics

Cloudera

Advanced analytics and enterprise data empower companies to not only have a completely transparent view of movement of materials and products within their line of sight, but also leverage data from their suppliers to have a holistic view 2-3 tiers deep in the supply chain. Keep data lineage secure and governed.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

CIO Business Intelligence

In recent years, the term “data lakehouse” was coined to describe this architectural pattern of tabular analytics over data in the data lake. In a rush to own this term, many vendors have lost sight of the fact that the openness of a data architecture is what guarantees its durability and longevity.