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October 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- Is the iPod a Business Intelligence Tool?
by David Loshin - David’s Welcome
by David Loshin
November 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- Master Data Management
by David Loshin - Data Enrichment
by David Loshin - The Importance of Data Profiling
by David Loshin
December 2005 ( View complete archive page )
- Correlation and Causality
by David Loshin - Why CDI and Data Quality?
by David Loshin - Data Provenance and Data Quality
by David Loshin - Is Compliance the Key to Data Quality? Or The Other Way Around?
by David Loshin
January 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Developing a Data Quality Center of Excellence
by David Loshin - Data Quality and Strategy
by David Loshin - Challenge: How Do You Value MDM?
by David Loshin - Data Imputation and Newspaper Games
by David Loshin - What is Different about MDM?
by David Loshin
February 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Upstream and Downstream
by David Loshin - Data Quality Performance Metrics
by David Loshin - Business Intelligence Management - The Missing Link?
by David Loshin - When Does a Table Become “Reference Data”
by David Loshin - Data, Google, and The Government
by David Loshin
March 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Business Rules and Information Value
by David Loshin - Social Networks and Record Linkage
by David Loshin - Selling MDM to Senior Management
by David Loshin
April 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Decision vs. Predictive Analytics
by David Loshin - Data Accuracy
by David Loshin - Shovels and Holes
by David Loshin - ROI for Information Governance? Think Strategically!
by David Loshin
May 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Customer Data Integration: A Source of Business Intelligence
by David Loshin - Notes from DAMA-I/Meta-Data 2006
by David Loshin - More Than Names and Addresses
by David Loshin
June 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- CDI and Governance
by David Loshin - The Joy of Choosing Product Names
by David Loshin - Personal Aspects of Operational Optimization
by David Loshin - Client Participation is Critical
by David Loshin
July 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Perceptions of Identity
by David Loshin
August 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- The Data Quality Center of Excellence
by David Loshin - The Fall and Rise of CRM
by David Loshin - Metadata Musings
by David Loshin
September 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Unique Identification, Service Orientation and the Master Index
by David Loshin - Live from DUE 2006: Pragmatics vs. Boiling the Ocean
by David Loshin - Using Data Quality Techniques in Non-DQ Settings
by David Loshin - Accounts vs. Customers – Semi-Structured Data
by David Loshin
October 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Quality Service Levels
by David Loshin - Activating the Data Stewardship Role
by David Loshin - Business Intelligence and Data Quality
by David Loshin
November 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Moving to MDM
by David Loshin - Greetings from TDWI Orlando
by David Loshin - Fundamentals of MDM: Unique Identification
by David Loshin
December 2006 ( View complete archive page )
- Information Value
by David Loshin - Report from the Data Governance Conference in Orlando
by David Loshin
January 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- I Ran the Report!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - It Takes Just as Long to Do it Wrong as it Does to Do it Right!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality and Federated Communities
by David Loshin - YAHOO — Happy New Year to You!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - A Case for Data Integration!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Joyce’s Welcome
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
February 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Governance
by David Loshin - Varchar(255) - The De Facto Standard!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM and Broken Links
by David Loshin - MDM in an SOA!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
March 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- ROI vs. Performance Oriented Business Cases
by David Loshin - What’s a Relationship Got To Do, Got To Do With it?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - We Don’t Need No Stinkin Rules!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Impressions from DAMA/Meta Data 2007
by David Loshin - I Found the Issues – Now What?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM, Governance, and Dis-Integration
by David Loshin - The DBA’s Got SOX!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
April 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Governance on the Road
by David Loshin - Overlap Between Tables (The Relationship Continues)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Governance and Business Policy
by David Loshin - Why Metadata?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Glitz and Glitter!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Will The Real Master Data Please Stand Up?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Optimization and Redundancy Elimination
by David Loshin
May 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Another Notch in My Belt!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Governance Executive Briefing: Answers
by David Loshin - The Disconnected Connection!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What is Data Quality?
by David Loshin - A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Off to Las Vegas
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality and Non-Persistent Elements
by David Loshin - TDWI in May of 2007
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
June 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- We Are Family!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Paintin’ and Fixin’ Time!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM Stakeholders
by David Loshin - Summer is Just Around the Corner!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Change Agency and Prognostication
by David Loshin - Back from Boston!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - More From the Governance Summits
by David Loshin - What’s Your Quality Worth?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
July 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- What is a Quality Metric?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Profiling – Open Source
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Virtual Worlds, Real Money
by David Loshin - Proactive or Reactive Profiling?
by David Loshin - Quality Architecture That Works!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Getting Down to Business with Business Rules
by David Loshin - Project Manager Gone!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
August 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Metrics That Matter!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
by David Loshin - Propagating Data Governance Throughout the Enterprise
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Out of Sync AGAIN!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Missing Identifier!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Counting Things
by David Loshin - Who Owns the Data?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
September 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Giving Governance and MDM their DUE
by David Loshin - We’re in Production Now!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Let’s Talk at the DataFlux Users Event!
by David Loshin
October 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- What About Data Quality is Important!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Teradata and SAS – Partners!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Text Mining and Linkage
by David Loshin - Null or Empty String – What Difference Does it Make?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
November 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- XML and Data Modeling?
by David Loshin - The Future of Data Governance?
by David Loshin - Relevance of the Data!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Reliability of the Data Reported!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM and Harmonizing Data Element Metadata
by David Loshin
December 2007 ( View complete archive page )
- Totally Awesome Programmer!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What Makes a Good Project Manager?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Deterministic vs. Probabilistic for MDM?
by David Loshin - Third Party Data
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
January 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Master Data Synchrony
by David Loshin - Using DataFlux!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Aruba Bound!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Who’s on First?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - We Is Getting Smarter!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Requiring Requirements!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - We Are Growing Again!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
February 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- More on MDM Synchrony
by David Loshin - Don’t Freak Out About Data Governance!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Now the Data is Important!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Business Metadata
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Governance Failure?
by David Loshin - Do You Do Data?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
March 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Minutes from DAMA- Part 1
by David Loshin - Data Governance — AGAIN!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Is MDM the Same as Data Quality?
by David Loshin - More About Data Governance!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
April 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Clarification on Defining Master Data Management
by David Loshin - Privacy Policies and Data Governance
by David Loshin
May 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- The Call Center Need for Integration!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - How Green is Your Data?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Defining Data Quality Metrics
by David Loshin - Does MDM Drive Data Governance?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Privacy and Data Governance
by David Loshin
June 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Quality Strategy
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - CIO Forum
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Integration in a Big Way!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Using Standardized Data for Matching
by David Loshin - Summer Cleanup!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Where Do you Stand in Your Data Governance Initiative?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
July 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Six Sigma and Data Quality
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - RFP (Request for Proposal)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Issues Tracking
by David Loshin - Gartner Magic Quadrant – The Results are In!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Workflow and Data Governance
by David Loshin - Critical Data Elements - Some Questions
by David Loshin
August 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Six Sigma and Data Quality – Measure
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Six Sigma and Data Quality - Define
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Is it Worth Monitoring?
by David Loshin
September 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- IDEAS 2008 – Miley Cyrus
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Putting It All Together – Six Sigma and You!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Six Sigma and Data Quality – Control
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Six Sigma and Data Quality – Improve
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Six Sigma and Data Quality – Analyze
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
October 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- When is Small not Small? When Its a Government Contract Recipient
by David Loshin - My New Book on Master Data Management
by David Loshin - Don’t Put the MDM Cart Before the Horse
by David Loshin - When IT Says No!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM Vision Quiz
by David Loshin - IDEAS 2008 – Hannah Montana
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
November 2008 ( View complete archive page )
- Small Business (SMB) ETL
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
January 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Why Do the Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Aggressive Cleansing Leads to Incorrect Information
by David Loshin - Reporting Requirements
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Where Did The Program Fail?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Margin of Error for Data Quality for Analytics
by David Loshin - When Creating the Corporate Metadata Strategy – Don’t Make These Mistakes!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
February 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- What is a Customer?
by David Loshin - Data Integration
by David Loshin
March 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Additional Aspects of Data Requirements
by David Loshin - Are you an effective data quality salesperson?
by Dylan Jones - A Word From Dylan
by Dylan Jones - Considering Potential Anomalies
by David Loshin - Buying Data – Part 3!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Buying Data – Part 2!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Buying Data – Part 1!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
April 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Migration: Paving the way for long-term data quality control
by Dylan Jones - The Essence of Data Migration
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Customer Master Data Noodlings
by David Loshin - Can You Make Money on the Quality of Data?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Improvement - Don't Forget the Basics
by Dylan Jones - Determining Master Data – Initial Thoughts
by David Loshin
May 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Does the quality of your information delight or satisfy customers?
by Dylan Jones - To Integrate or Not to Integrate – That is the Question!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Why your data migration project needs a skilled quantity surveyor
by Dylan Jones - Ready to Remodel!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Good Data is the New Black
by Jill Dyché - Where is the Data Quality?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
June 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Data migration and the optimistic project manager
by Dylan Jones - Contact Mechanisms
by David Loshin - Scorecards!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Simple Counts for Small Businesses
by David Loshin - TDWI Best Practice Awards
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Master Data Concepts and Master Data Objects
by David Loshin - Data Integration – Where Does it Fit in an Organization?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - IT Challenges for Enterprise Data Quality
by David Loshin - Problems with Data Integration
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
July 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Quality and Social Proof
by Dylan Jones - Customer Segmentation, Value Domains, and Data Profiling
by David Loshin - Data Quality Assessment - Preparatory Steps
by David Loshin - The Quality Culture
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - New Data Governance Book
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data entry still not getting the attention it deserves
by Dylan Jones - PIM and ERP
by David Loshin - Semantics from Structure - More on Contact Information
by David Loshin - Migrating without Data Governance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
August 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Note on Data Profiling - Note #1
by David Loshin - Julie and Julia and The Data Asset
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM and the Data Warehouse
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
September 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- The Data Asset – Utilizing People and Processes to Achieve a Quality Culture
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Organizing My Data Quality Thoughts
by David Loshin - Some common data migration risks (and how to avoid them)
by Dylan Jones - Data Quality, Improvement, Pareto, and Diminishing Returns
by David Loshin - The Data Asset – Proactive and Governed Organizations
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Data Asset – Undisciplined and Reactive Organizations
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Does Every Data Element Have a Meaning?
by David Loshin - The Data Asset – Optimizing Revenue and Governing Data
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Profiling and Data Analysis - Note #3
by David Loshin - The Data Asset – Risk Mitigation and Controlling Costs
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Note on Data Profiling - Note #2
by David Loshin - Data Quality Chinese Whispers
by Dylan Jones
October 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Quality, Recovery, and Regulations
by David Loshin - Thoughts About Completeness - Part 2
by David Loshin - Some Thoughts About Completeness – Part 1
by David Loshin - Just a B-I-T!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Aspects of MDM Tools
by David Loshin - Data Quality and Economic Considerations (or is Data Quality Recession-Proof?)
by David Loshin - Standardization vs. Enrichment
by David Loshin - Data Quality: Choose collaboration over competition
by Dylan Jones - Secret Hints and Information Extraction
by David Loshin - The Data Asset – Closing the Loop: Selecting the Right Technology
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
November 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- Are You Really Ready for Data Governance?
by Jill Dyché - Why is data quality important?
by Jim Harris - PMP – and the Master Data Management Project (Initiating)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Information Product Mapping
by David Loshin - PMP – and the Master Data Management Project
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality in Five Verbs
by Jim Harris - Using Profiling for Data Quality Measurement
by David Loshin - The perils of data quality procrastination
by Dylan Jones - Data Quality, 50023
by Jim Harris - Data Quality Assessment
by David Loshin - The money is in the trend
by Dylan Jones - Cloud Computing and ETL
by David Loshin - Community Service
by Jim Harris
December 2009 ( View complete archive page )
- The Twelve Days of Data
by Jim Harris - Compliance, Data Governance, and Data Requirements
by David Loshin - To Load or Not to Load: Confucius and The Argument for “All or Nothing Data Quality"
by Phil Simon - Finding a home for MDM
by Charles Blyth - PMP – and the Master Data Management Project (Monitoring and Controlling)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The First Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - The Prevention Paradox - Part 1
by David Loshin - Data Quality Windows
by Phil Simon - Hello from the MDM Front Line
by Charles Blyth - Aligning Motivations
by Dylan Jones - PMP – and the Master Data Management Project (Executing)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - My Own Private Data
by Jim Harris - Too Much Information?
by David Loshin - Data Chaos and Five Truisms of Data Quality
by Phil Simon - The Five Pillars of Data Quality Procrastination
by Dylan Jones - PMP – and the Master Data Management Project (Planning)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Sneezing Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Transient Element Data Quality
by David Loshin
January 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Dear Charles - What does MDM Cost?
by Charles Blyth - Master Data Management by David Loshin – Stakeholders and Requirements
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data-driven customer churn
by Dylan Jones - The Second Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data Streams and Data Rules
by David Loshin - Distant Early Warnings
by Phil Simon - Building for the future
by Dylan Jones - A Tale of Two Q’s
by Jim Harris - Data Profiling and Identifying Attributes – Part 1
by David Loshin - Where Data Quality and Politics Unite
by Phil Simon - What is a MDM Strategy
by Charles Blyth - Master Data Management by David Loshin
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What's the Meta with your Data?
by Jim Harris - Name Patterns and Parsing
by David Loshin - Hostile Environment Data Harassment
by Phil Simon - PMP – and the Master Data Management Project (Closing)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality and The Middle Way
by Jim Harris - Quality of Unstructured Data
by David Loshin - The Big Lebowski and Data Quality Culpability
by Phil Simon
February 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Does your data quality help customers succeed?
by Dylan Jones - Foreigner and First Time IT Project Myths
by Phil Simon - The Third Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data Quality, Data Requirements, Data Use
by David Loshin - Subject Area Models
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - How to orchestrate a data migration failure
by Dylan Jones - Rodney Dangerfield and Data Quality
by Phil Simon - Data Quality is such a Rush
by Jim Harris - Thoughts on Identifying Attributes
by David Loshin - Master Data Management by David Loshin – How to Use MDM
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Simplicity, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Quality
by Phil Simon - Is DG a D-O-G?
by Jim Harris - Two Phases and “Baking It In”
by David Loshin - Master Data Management by David Loshin – The Fun STUFF!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Warning: Data Quality Improvement Can Seriously Damage Your Business
by Dylan Jones - Organizational Culture, Data Governance, and The Death of ERP
by Phil Simon - Eternal September and Tacit Knowledge
by Jim Harris - Data Profiling and Data Federation
by David Loshin - Master Data Management by David Loshin – Data Governance and MDM Maturity Model
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
March 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Sour Data
by Jim Harris - Why are there Duplicate Records?
by David Loshin - Data Modeling for BI (Business Intelligence)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Future of MDM in 2010 and Beyond – A simple business view
by Charles Blyth - The Future of MDM: A Non-Expert's Perspective
by Phil Simon - The Semantic Future of MDM
by Jim Harris - Future of MDM – Master Policy Management?
by David Loshin - The Future of MDM: 2010 and Beyond – Create an Architecture that is Enterprise-Centric
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Future of MDM: Enterprise Waste Removal
by Dylan Jones - A Simple Data Quality Survey for Raising Knowledge Worker Productivity
by Dylan Jones - Data Quality Non-Believers
by Phil Simon - Metadata and 3-D Glasses
by David Loshin - Trends for 2010
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Aristotle, Patrick Swayze, and People Issues
by Phil Simon - Oughtn’t you audit?
by Jim Harris - Data Quality Business Impact Categories
by David Loshin - Physical Data Models (PDM)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Lip Service
by Phil Simon - The HedgeFoxian Hypothesis
by Jim Harris - Noise and Signal
by David Loshin - Logical Data Models (LDM)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
April 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- What Clients Don't Tell Consultants
by Phil Simon - Data!
by Jim Harris - Who Watches the Watchmen?
by David Loshin - DQ Does Not Stand for Dairy Queen in My World!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Governance and Data Quality in 2020 - what are your views?
by Dylan Jones - Employee Data Quality Issues, Part III: Date Challenges
by Phil Simon - Thinking along the edges of the box
by Jim Harris - More MDM Thoughts
by David Loshin - The De-Centralized Data Quality Movement!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Questions for your next data quality business case
by Dylan Jones - Employee Data Quality Issues, Part II: Social Challenges
by Phil Simon - The plan for the project looks so good
by Jim Harris - Identity Resolution, Cleansing, and Survivorship
by David Loshin - New Friends
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Employee Data Quality Issues, Part I: Address Challenges
by Phil Simon - Poor Quality: The Common Cold of Data
by Jim Harris - Data Down the Drain?
by David Loshin - Facebook and Common Sense!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - When Data Quality Breaks Bad
by Phil Simon
May 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Johnny Cash, Purging, and Data Atrocities
by Phil Simon - The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 4)
by Jim Harris - First Cuts at Compliance
by David Loshin - Analysis without a Monitoring Tool
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - No Whining: In Defense of Facebook
by Phil Simon - The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 3)
by Jim Harris - Increased Reporting vs. Increased Scrutiny?
by David Loshin - When Quality Just Ain’t Quality!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data profiling: Are you closing the loop?
by Dylan Jones - What Clients Don't Tell Each Other
by Phil Simon - The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 2)
by Jim Harris - Simple Analytics - Thoughts on Transparency
by David Loshin - When the Integration Project is Not so Integrated!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What Consultants Don't Tell Clients
by Phil Simon - The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 1)
by Jim Harris - The Myth of the "Golden Record"
by David Loshin - Source System Analysis
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
June 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Tacos, Ingredient Creep, and Data Quality Rigor Mortis
by Jim Harris - Householding from an MDM Perspective
by David Loshin - Data Management - Opportunities for Advanced Education and Certification
by Rich Murnane - Can Better Quality Data Help Reduce Costs?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Welcome to the Accuracy Dimension
by Dylan Jones - Potato Chips and The Myth of the Data Warehouse
by Phil Simon - The Root! The Root! The Root Cause is on Fire!
by Jim Harris - From Sea to Shining Sea: “Non-Invasive Data Governance”™ is Invading the Globe
by Robert S. Seiner - Data Governance and Data Protection
by David Loshin - Facts – Facts – and More Facts!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Start from where you are
by Dylan Jones - Data Quality, Social Media, and ROI
by Phil Simon - DQ-IRL
by Jim Harris - Business Policies and Data Policies
by David Loshin - 2010 Data Governance and IDQ Conference Wrap Up
by Rich Murnane - Understanding What Causes Bad Data Bottlenecks
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The problem with data models
by Dylan Jones - A Yarn: Data Integrity Starts on the First Tee
by Phil Simon - Predictably Poor Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Assessing Semantics
by David Loshin - Education Gets Better Student Tracking
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Long Road to Becoming "Data Aware"
by Rich Murnane - Data Atrocities #2: The Data Fork
by Phil Simon - Welcome to Bob Seiner's CoE Blog
by Robert S. Seiner - When a Date Goes Wrong!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
July 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Application Designers Need to Bake Data Quality In
by Dylan Jones - Talking About Data, Part I
by Phil Simon - Through the Data Gazing Glass
by Jim Harris - Multidomain MDM, Entities, and Roles
by David Loshin - Assessing the Enterprise
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Some Practical Tips for Making the Invisible Visible
by Dylan Jones - Continuous Partial Attention
by Phil Simon - Data Transcendentalism
by Jim Harris - Conflicting Thoughts: Centralization and Modeling
by David Loshin - Speed to Market!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Master Data Mismanagement: An Open Letter to Many Fortune 500 CEOs
by Phil Simon - The Fourth Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data, Data Quality and Corporate Acquisitions
by David Loshin - Inventory Management and "Only One Left"
by Rich Murnane - BP Oil and the Lack of Governance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Differing Viewpoints of Error
by Dylan Jones - Plugging Data Quality Spills
by Phil Simon - Declaration of Data Governance
by Jim Harris - Where the Rubber Meets the Road in Data Quality!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Master Data and Reference Data – More Thoughts
by David Loshin - Heat and Trust
by Phil Simon
August 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Joins that Make Sense
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Governance and Data Quality: The HR Analogy
by Dylan Jones - Half Measures
by Phil Simon - Data Quality in Medias Res
by Jim Harris - Master Data Consolidation and Semantic MDM – The Final Chapter?
by David Loshin - More Data Please...
by Rich Murnane - The Softer Side of Selling Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - Big Data, Small Data
by Phil Simon - The Fifth Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data Governance Operating Model of Roles - Stay Practical
by Robert S. Seiner - Master Data Consolidation – Part 3: Presumption of Singularity
by David Loshin - Talking About Data, Part III
by Phil Simon - Who Framed Data Entry?
by Jim Harris - Master Data Consolidation – Part 2
by David Loshin - Identity and Data Quality
by Rich Murnane - And Now We Wait!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - EPA Attempts to Improve Data Quality Through Crowdsourcing
by Dylan Jones - Talking About Data, Part II
by Phil Simon - The Seven Year Glitch
by Jim Harris - Master Data Consolidation - Part 1
by David Loshin - Enterprise Information Management – AGAIN
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
September 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Management and the Importance of Social Search
by Phil Simon - Holistic Data Management (Part 3)
by Jim Harris - Master Data: Management and Policies – Persisted vs. Virtualized
by David Loshin - Healthcare Changes – What is the Next Big Issue?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Are You Playing Data Migration Jenga?
by Dylan Jones - Data, Priorities, and Muhammad Ali
by Phil Simon - Holistic Data Management (Part 2)
by Jim Harris - Be Careful What You Ask for With Consultants
by Robert S. Seiner - Master Data: Management and Policies – Data Governance and Enterprise Policy
by David Loshin - Tracking PHI (Personal Health Information)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Care About the Customer? Care About Their Data
by Dylan Jones - Baseball, George Costanza, and The Problem with Unwritten Rules
by Phil Simon - Holistic Data Management (Part 1)
by Jim Harris - Master Data: Management and Policies – It's Really About the Policies
by David Loshin - More Data Please, Part II
by Rich Murnane - Conference Season
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - It’s Too Much Work
by Dylan Jones - The Case For and Against "Studs and Duds"
by Phil Simon - Master Data: Management and Policies – Initial Thoughts
by David Loshin - Integrating Data in the Enterprise
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Are Your Data Quality Rules Complex Enough?
by Dylan Jones - Alexander Pope, Indifference, and Data Atrocities Revisited
by Phil Simon - The Fiscal Calendar Effect
by Jim Harris
October 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- What are You Taking Off the Plate?
by Dylan Jones - Lessons and Observations from IDEAS, Part II
by Phil Simon - Data Zombies
by Jim Harris - The Role of the Data Governance Council – An Implementation Example
by Robert S. Seiner - The Growth of Unowned Data
by David Loshin - The Data Quality Analyst...
by Rich Murnane - Switching Out Software
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Lessons and Observations from IDEAS, Part I
by Phil Simon - Enterprise Ubuntu
by Jim Harris - Governance of “Unowned” Data
by David Loshin - DataFlux IDEAS 2010 – You Missed a Good One!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Looking for Data Quality WOMBATs
by Dylan Jones - Too Much Club
by Phil Simon - Don’t Do Less Bad; Do Better Good
by Jim Harris - Controlled Data Cleansing
by David Loshin - Doing the Right Thing…
by Rich Murnane - Formal vs. Informal Data Governance
by Phil Simon - Video: Declaration of Data Governance
by Jim Harris - Quality vs. Cleansing
by David Loshin - Who Needs Data Governance?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Importance of Compliance
by Dylan Jones
November 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Similarity Thresholding: Signal and Noise
by David Loshin - Organizational Change and MDM
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Single Version of the Truth
by Jim Harris - Identities and Entities: Resolution or Dissolution?
by David Loshin - Finding the Common Thread
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Business-Driven Data Migration
by Dylan Jones - Defending the Data
by Phil Simon - Jumping the Data Shark
by Jim Harris - When is a Person Not a Person?
by David Loshin - Quality Data – One Issue at a Time...
by Rich Murnane - Over the Stress
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Impacts Need an Owner
by Dylan Jones - The Limitations of Band-Aids
by Phil Simon - The SME Shadow Knows!
by Jim Harris - 70-80%
by David Loshin - "Chunks" of Data Governance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Data Avalanche is Coming – Are you Ready?
by Dylan Jones - Returning to the Scene of the Crime
by Phil Simon - Shared Responsibility
by Jim Harris - When the Contract is Completed
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
December 2010 ( View complete archive page )
- Are You Incentivising Poor Data Quality?
by Dylan Jones - What's the Big Deal?
by Phil Simon - Video Blog: 3 Critical Steps to Improving Product Data Quality (Part 4)
by Jim Harris - 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 4)
by Jim Harris - Party Data and Product Data
by David Loshin - Up...
by Rich Murnane - How Joyce Saved Christmas
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - “If Not Now, When? And If Not You, Who?”
by Dylan Jones - The Many-to-Many Problem
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - One More Thing...
by Phil Simon - Video Blog: 3 Critical Steps to Improving Product Data Quality (Part 3)
by Jim Harris - 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 3)
by Jim Harris - Entity Identification and Name Matching
by David Loshin - When SMEs Go Missing: Four Survival Tips
by Phil Simon - How to Escape the Data Migration Doldrums
by Dylan Jones - Video Blog: 3 Critical Steps to Improving Product Data Quality, Part 2
by Jim Harris - 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 2)
by Jim Harris - More on Similarity, and a Twist
by David Loshin - Taking the Easy Way Out
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - On Data Quality Habits
by Dylan Jones - Hybrids
by Phil Simon - Video Blog: 3 Critical Steps to Improving Product Data, Part I
by Jim Harris - 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 1)
by Jim Harris
January 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Quality Incentives, Part III: The Limitations of Incentives
by Phil Simon - IT: More Important and Less Strategic
by Thomas Redman - Collaboration isn’t Brain Surgery
by Jim Harris - Communications Gap? Or is there a Gap between Chasms?
by David Loshin - F-Identity...
by Rich Murnane - The Data Quality Trainwreck as a Sales Vehicle
by Dylan Jones - Data Quality Incentives, Part II: When Incentives Lack Teeth
by Phil Simon - Amazon’s Data Management Brain
by Jim Harris - What Does IT Know?
by David Loshin - The Data Quality Cycle of Capability
by Dylan Jones - Data Quality Incentives, Part I
by Phil Simon - Forward-Facing Executive
by Jim Harris - Mastering Product Data
by David Loshin - "Formal" Data Management Job Market Up...Significantly...
by Rich Murnane - Well, It is Installed!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What is Your (Anti)-Data Quality Manifesto?
by Dylan Jones - The Limitations of Google
by Phil Simon - Are you Building Bridges or Digging Moats?
by Jim Harris - Product Data is Different
by David Loshin - The After-Thought of Data Design
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
February 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Relationships Trump Data, For Now...
by Rich Murnane - The Hubbub About MDM Hubs – Registry
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Creating Data Quality Reports that Matter
by Dylan Jones - Elegance
by Phil Simon - Measurement is Fraught
by Thomas Redman - A Tale of Two G’s
by Jim Harris - Episode 2: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - The Data Quality Scorecard – Contrarian View
by David Loshin - Data Migration Myths and Legends
by Dylan Jones - The Voice of Data
by Phil Simon - What Do I Really Weigh?
by Thomas Redman - Data Knights Tweet Jam
by Jim Harris - The Data Quality Scorecard
by David Loshin - The Hubbub about MDM Hubs: Repository
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Make Knowledge Workers More Accountable for Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - Episode 1: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Data Quality Incentives, Part V: Organizational Size
by Phil Simon - When are Data Assets?
by Thomas Redman - The Reptilian Anti-Data Brain
by Jim Harris - So What Does IT Really Know?
by David Loshin - The Hubbub About MDM Hubs: An Introduction
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Incentives, Part IV: Expectations and Ownership
by Phil Simon - Data: Potentially Strategic
by Thomas Redman - Groundhog Data Quality Day
by Jim Harris - How Does IT Know?
by David Loshin
March 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- The Data Ownership Dichotomy
by Phil Simon - Staffing for Data, Part 1
by Thomas Redman - Time Silos
by Jim Harris - More Telephone Talk: Ambiguity, Obsolete Terms and Ghosts
by David Loshin - Build MDM and They Will Come
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Planning a Data Migration? Beware of Sampling
by Dylan Jones - Negative Space, Miles Davis, and Data Quality
by Phil Simon - Make the Call
by Thomas Redman - Let’s Meta a Data
by Jim Harris - Episode 4: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Telephone Tag: Bandwidth, CDRs, Data Quality and a Business Model
by David Loshin - Is MDM for Everyone?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Accuracy is Not an Annual Event
by Dylan Jones - Driving Your Data
by Phil Simon - Stop the Madness
by Thomas Redman - Data Quality Measurement Matters
by Jim Harris - Telemarketing and Ambiguity
by David Loshin - Completeness is a Two-Way Street...
by Rich Murnane - Look at Your Data
by Phil Simon - Trusted Data Stems from Solid Process
by Thomas Redman - Sharing Data
by Jim Harris - Episode 3: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Exploiting the Data Quality Scorecard Concept
by David Loshin - The Hubbub about MDM Hubs – Hybrid
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What Happens in Vegas…Is Disruptive Change
by Jill Dyché - The Fixer
by Phil Simon - Trusted Measurement Stems from Solid Process
by Thomas Redman - To Score or Not to Score – That is the Question
by David Loshin
April 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Governance and the Occasional Vow of Celibacy
by Jill Dyché - Looking but not Seeing
by Phil Simon - Data Quality Leaders Need Power to Sustain a Sense of Urgency
by Thomas Redman - Lycanthropy, Silver Bullets, and Master Data Management
by Jim Harris - Understanding the Risks of Big Bang MDM
by David Loshin - Next Generation Data Integration
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Regulatory Compliance and the Data Quality Profession
by Dylan Jones - The Indian and the Arrow
by Phil Simon - Leaders are Natural Communicators
by Thomas Redman - Necessity is the Mother of (Not Only Good) Invention
by Jim Harris - Episode 6: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Master Data and Value Generation
by David Loshin - Quality Control and Quality Assurance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Benchmarking
by Dylan Jones - That One Thing
by Phil Simon - Leaders Establish a New Reality
by Thomas Redman - Retrograde Organizational Motion
by Jim Harris - Risks of Big Bang Master Data Management
by David Loshin - Need To Know Data – Part 2
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Thoughts on Taking Your Data Quality Community Forward
by Dylan Jones - Why Watson Scares Me
by Phil Simon - Does this Data Model Make Me Look Fat?
by Jill Dyché - Staffing for Data, Part 2
by Thomas Redman - The Technology Carousel
by Jim Harris - Episode 5: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Online Persona, Life and Death
by David Loshin - Need To Know Data – Part 1
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
May 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Maybe it was Memphis...
by Rich Murnane - Master Models and Inheritance
by David Loshin - When The Sharks Attack!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Function-Focused Data Migration
by Dylan Jones - International Data Management, Part 1: Politics, Languages, and Lists
by Phil Simon - Leaders Persist Through Thick and Thin
by Thomas Redman - The Lost Art of Prototyping
by Jim Harris - OK, So We Have Two Copies...
by David Loshin - What’s the Deal with the Frigate Bird?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Do You Really Know Your Business?
by Dylan Jones - Is Security Inhibiting Your Data Quality?
by Phil Simon - Data Quality Leaders Tap Into the Values of the Organization
by Thomas Redman - Rise of the Datechnibus
by Jim Harris - Episode 8: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Practical Considerations of Master Data Modeling
by David Loshin - It's Not About The Data, Stupid...
by Rich Murnane - Gertie the Sea Lion
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Room for the Little Guy?
by Phil Simon - Carry the Wounded but Shoot the Laggards
by Thomas Redman - George Mallory and Data Mountaineering
by Jim Harris - Get the Paper First! (Consiga el Primer de Papel)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - A Master Data Dilemma
by David Loshin - Fight the Data Quality Battles That Can be Won
by Dylan Jones - Calculus and A Data Quality Equation
by Phil Simon - Fix Something
by Thomas Redman - The Moirae, Deadlines and Working within Limits
by Jim Harris - Episode 7: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Is There an Alternate Approach to Big Bang MDM?
by David Loshin - Mergers and Acquisitions...
by Rich Murnane - Making a Mess of MDM
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
June 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Rush, Dr. Evil, and the Email Approach to Data Management
by Phil Simon - Good Controls Yield Predictable Results
by Thomas Redman - Commander’s Intent
by Jim Harris - Considering the Business Case for Multidentity Analysis – Part 1
by David Loshin - Just the Facts, Ma'am.
by Thomas Redman - Direct Data and The Royal We
by Phil Simon - Council Data Governance
by Jim Harris - Episode 10: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Multidentity
by David Loshin - The Data Wherehouse
by Phil Simon - Understanding Customer Needs Takes Personal Strength
by Thomas Redman - The Sixth Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data Values and Context Sensitivity
by David Loshin - Magic Data Management (MDM)...
by Rich Murnane - Things That Don’t Work So Well!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Migration Mud-Slinging
by Dylan Jones - Embrace Disruption, Governance Soldier!
by Jill Dyché - What if?
by Phil Simon - The Right Data
by Thomas Redman - The Philosophy of Expertise
by Jim Harris - Episode 9: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Programming Language Compilers and Product Data
by David Loshin - Reversing the Data Migration Project Pyramid
by Dylan Jones - International Data Management, Part 2: Hofstadter's Law and Money Matters
by Phil Simon - Data Make Wonder. Data Quality is Prerequisite.
by Thomas Redman
July 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Finding the Passion for Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - On Data Quality and Interceptions
by Phil Simon - Signs of Hope
by Thomas Redman - Being Horizontally Vertical
by Jim Harris - Some Thoughts on Organizing Master Product Data
by David Loshin - Thoughts on DQ and COTS Products
by Dylan Jones - The World Spins on Data
by Phil Simon - Anarchy in the D-A-T-A
by Jim Harris - Episode 12: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Interpolating Patterns
by David Loshin - Things That Don’t Work So Well – No Vision for Enterprise Data Architecture
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Is Data Migration Finally Growing Up?
by Dylan Jones - Hamsterdam and Data Anarchy
by Phil Simon - Paleolithic Rhythm and Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Entity Identification vs. Identity Resolution
by David Loshin - Things That Don’t Work So Well – Not Addressing Data Quality Upfront
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Leadership Lessons from Colby the Dog
by Jill Dyché - Memento and the Fallacy of Certainties
by Phil Simon - When in Doubt, Fix Something
by Thomas Redman - Knowing when to flip a coin
by Jim Harris - South Sudan...
by Rich Murnane - Episode 11: Knights of the Data Roundtable
by Knights of the Data Roundtable - Things That Don’t Work So Well – MDM Without Requirements
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Considering the Business Case for Multidentity Analysis – Part 2
by David Loshin - Coupling Data Quality and Business Intelligence
by Dylan Jones
August 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- In Search of an Anecdotal Antidote
by Jim Harris - Core Data Domains and Their Use in Analytics
by David Loshin - Some IDEAS...
by Rich Murnane - Things That Don’t Work So Well – Not Addressing Data Integration as an Ongoing Initiative
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Musing on Idle Assets and Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - So, How Do You Account For That?
by Thomas Redman - Song of My Data
by Jim Harris - More on Data Inconsistency and Predictability of Existence of Errors
by David Loshin - The Case for Continuous Data Quality Inspection
by Dylan Jones - Gimme Structure
by Phil Simon - Data in the (Oscar) Wilde
by Jim Harris - The Fate is Not in the Stars, But in Ourselves
by David Loshin - Things That Don’t Work So Well – Doing Analytics Before Their Time
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - On Babies, the Exposure Argument, and Frameworks
by Phil Simon - Roles and Responsibilities for Chief Data Officers
by Thomas Redman - The Most August Imagination
by Jim Harris - The Nature of the Beast
by David Loshin - Trouble with Data in Paradise...
by Rich Murnane - Things That Don’t Work So Well – Creating A Spider Web of Data Marts
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Smart Stuff from the BI Summit
by Jill Dyché - Signals and Noise
by Phil Simon - It's All Unstructured
by Thomas Redman - The Persistence of Error
by David Loshin - Things That Don’t Work So Well – No Organizational Acceptance or Buy-In
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
September 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Tackling Units of Data Migration
by Dylan Jones - On Data Quality Sponsors
by Phil Simon - Quality Happens Through People
by Thomas Redman - “What is is the was of what shall be”
by Jim Harris - Reference Data, Conceptual Domains, Value Domains
by David Loshin - Business and IT – Part 1
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Healthcare Needs to Connect The Data Quality Dots
by Dylan Jones - The Urge to Purge
by Phil Simon - The Simple Elegance of the Quality Improvement Cycle
by Thomas Redman - Data Geeks and Business Blindness
by Jim Harris - Location, Location, Location - The Location Domain
by David Loshin - I Have an IDEA!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Secret to Long-Term Data Quality Survival?
by Dylan Jones - Practices Smractices
by Phil Simon - The Simple Elegance of the Data Accuracy Spreadsheet
by Thomas Redman - Freudian Data Quality
by Jim Harris - The Product Domain
by David Loshin - Color Commentary...
by Rich Murnane - Hadoop – Did I Sneeze?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - ERP and Data
by Phil Simon - The Simple Elegance of the Customer-Supplier Model
by Thomas Redman - Are your Best Practices R.I.P.?
by Jim Harris - Things That Don’t Work so Well – Cloudy with a Chance of DataBalls!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Customer Domain
by David Loshin - Getting Deep with Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - Data Governance Death Sentences
by Jill Dyché - On Data, Crises Mortgages, and Context
by Phil Simon
October 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- "Occupy" Conference Rooms...
by Rich Murnane - Big Data – Big News!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - In Praise of the Flat File
by Phil Simon - Satisficing Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data Oriented Blog Titles are More SEO Friendly When They Say “Big Data” and Hadoop!
by David Loshin - 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Zero Defect Data Migration? Yes, Seriously.
by Dylan Jones - Dual is a Four-Letter Word, Part II
by Phil Simon - Managing the Transition
by Thomas Redman - Data Psychedelicatessen
by Jim Harris - Semantimetadata - Managing Semantic Reference Data Quality
by David Loshin - You May Have Missed the Boat!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - A Framework is not a Strategy
by Dylan Jones - Dual is a Four-Letter Word, Part I
by Phil Simon - Branding Data Quality
by Thomas Redman - Datenvergnügen
by Jim Harris - Reference Mapping and Capturing the Chain of Definition
by David Loshin - Capacity Planning!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality and Service Analytics (for the Consumer)
by Dylan Jones - Data Governance and the Wet Bar
by Jill Dyché - On Efficiency, Travel, and Unstructured Data
by Phil Simon - Get Ye to the Revenue Side
by Thomas Redman - The Year of the Datechnibus
by Jim Harris - Reference Data and Type Equivalence
by David Loshin - People Who Live in Glass Houses!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
November 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- Decision-Driven Data Management
by Jim Harris - Motivation or Outcome? Differentiating Causality
by David Loshin - Monday, Monday – La La
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Measuring the Laughable
by David Loshin - Models, Models and Models
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Step Away from the Data
by Dylan Jones - On Data and Jargon
by Phil Simon - The Data that Supported the Decision
by Jim Harris - Hadoop and Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Analysis
by David Loshin - "Big Data" and the Failure to Communicate...
by Rich Murnane - 3 C’s of Data Quality Community Building
by Dylan Jones - The Gang of Four and the Data Chasm
by Phil Simon - Putting Data in the Middle
by Jill Dyché - A Decision Needle in a Data Haystack
by Jim Harris - What Types of Activities are Suited to Hadoop?
by David Loshin - Data Migration Forecasting – Some Fundamentals
by Dylan Jones - The Moon and Indifference
by Phil Simon - 101 Broken Lightbulbs
by Jim Harris - What is Hadoop? And Why is it Good for Big Data?
by David Loshin
December 2011 ( View complete archive page )
- The Myth of Big Data
by Phil Simon - “Satisfy the Customer, Satisfy the Customer, Satisfy the Customer”
by Thomas Redman - 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 3)
by Jim Harris - 101 Lightbulb Moments
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Split Testing
by Dylan Jones - On Amazon and Necessary Conditions
by Phil Simon - Report from ICIQ-2011
by Thomas Redman - 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 2)
by Jim Harris - Establishing the Link Between Data and Decisions?
by David Loshin - Thoughts on Data Quality, Systems and Documentation
by Dylan Jones - Why I'm Betting on Amazon
by Phil Simon - An Enormous Tent
by Thomas Redman - 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 1)
by Jim Harris - Proposing Measurements of Outcomes
by David Loshin - Can Suzy Come Out and Play?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Leveraging Data Quality Correlations
by Dylan Jones - On Apple and Customer Data
by Phil Simon
January 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Data Quality and State
by David Loshin - The Roving Linebacker...
by Rich Murnane - Facing Maturity – Don’t Shake the Baby!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Most Powerful Data Quality Tool on the Market
by Dylan Jones - How Neat are Your Circles?
by Phil Simon - Data Quality Professional Certification Part II: Pros
by Thomas Redman - Does your Data need a Massage Therapist or a Chiropractor?
by Jim Harris - Data Governance and Data Quality Events
by David Loshin - Facing Maturity
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Professional Certification: Part 1, Cons
by Thomas Redman - Amazon's Big Data Ecosystem
by Phil Simon - Corporate Politics in 2012
by Jill Dyché - Why Can’t We Predict the Weather?
by Jim Harris - Modeling Data Quality Events
by David Loshin - Open Data - A Real Life Example
by Rich Murnane - Useless Data Quality Efficiency
by Dylan Jones - Risk-Based Business Cases
by Thomas Redman - On Kahneman and Data Quality
by Phil Simon - Data Quality Mondegreens
by Jim Harris - The Broad Extent of Data Quality Events
by David Loshin - "Open Data" Behind Your Firewalls...
by Rich Murnane - The Link between Data Quality, The Social Web and Anti-Marketing
by Dylan Jones - On Facebook and Need for One Database
by Phil Simon - Developing People
by Thomas Redman - 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 4)
by Jim Harris - Ain’t No Data Like My Data!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Concept of an “External Data Quality Event”
by David Loshin
February 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Further on Poor Data Quality and New Technologies
by Thomas Redman - Leaping over Calendar Effects
by Jim Harris - Facing Maturity – Your Baby is NOT Really that Pretty, but Is the Baby Really Ugly?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality by Any Other Name
by Dylan Jones - Dator on Data Governance
by Phil Simon - Poor Data Quality and New Technology
by Thomas Redman - Getting Your Data Governance Stuff Together
by Jim Harris - Facing Maturity – Effective Change
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality and Event Stream Processing
by David Loshin - Data Profiling: The Ultimate Plumbing Tool
by Dylan Jones - Dator on Multiple Records
by Phil Simon - Poor Data Quality and Management
by Thomas Redman - WYSIWYG and WYSIATI
by Jim Harris - Embedding State as Process
by David Loshin - Data Quality is Traveling...
by Rich Murnane - Facing Maturity – Make Love NOT War
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - A Data Quality Plea for Leaders
by Dylan Jones - Dator's First Observations
by Phil Simon - Poor Data Quality and Diverted Leadership Attention
by Thomas Redman - Choosing Your First Master Data Domain
by Jim Harris - Extending Data Beyond the Database – The Notion of “State”
by David Loshin - The Customer is King (of Data Quality)
by Dylan Jones - Introducing Dator
by Phil Simon - Data Quality Professional Certification Part III: Pros
by Thomas Redman
March 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Dator: When Software Vendors Don't Eat Their Own Dog Food
by Phil Simon - I Don’t Trust Your Data
by Thomas Redman - The Dark Side of the Mood
by Jim Harris - Fundamental Opportunity: Data Policies, Downstream Repurposing, and Derived Knowledge
by David Loshin - Do Not Pass Go...
by Rich Murnane - Are We Creating Silos of Expertise?
by Dylan Jones - Memo from the CEO: Announcing Data Governance Workgroups!
by Jill Dyché - Data Quality: Does Your CXO Have Any Skin in the Game?
by Phil Simon - Bad Data and Organizational Mistrust
by Thomas Redman - Voyage of the Golden Records
by Jim Harris - Privacy Contagion and Privacy Control
by David Loshin - The Data Quality Fire Brigade
by Dylan Jones - Dator on Breaking Bad, Matching, and Amazon.com
by Phil Simon - The Big Data Theory
by Jim Harris - Protection Infection and Data Privacy
by David Loshin - Why Are We Always Waiting for the Data Model?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The "Secret" to Data Quality Improvement During Data Migration
by Dylan Jones - Dator on the Carrots and Sticks of Sentiment Analysis
by Phil Simon - Swimming in Big Data
by Jim Harris - Infectious Characteristics and Data Pedigree
by David Loshin - The "Year of the Data"...
by Rich Murnane - Governing Data Governance
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Are You Telling the Right Data Quality Story?
by Dylan Jones - David Loshin, Cowbell, and the Myth of (Completely) Unstructured Data
by Phil Simon
April 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Little Data and Dueling Data Duals
by Phil Simon - Perception Filters and Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Harmonizing Hard-Coded Metadata
by David Loshin - Facing Maturity – When the Business Users Want Quality
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Solving the Data Migration Target Puzzle [Part 1/2]
by Dylan Jones - Why Doesn't My Data Listen to Me?
by Phil Simon - The Lies We Tell Data
by Jim Harris - Hard-Coded Metadata
by David Loshin - Facing Maturity – The Lack of Quality Data
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Big MetaData
by Phil Simon - Books That Influenced My Thinking: Managerial Breakthrough
by Thomas Redman - The Illusion-of-Quality Effect
by Jim Harris - The Impact of Data Element Renaming...
by David Loshin - Facing Maturity - Controlled Burns!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Big Data - We've Only Just Begun
by Dylan Jones - Excel, Office 15 and Big Data
by Phil Simon - Books That Influenced My Thinking: Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position
by Thomas Redman - Data and the Liar’s Paradox
by Jim Harris - Facing Maturity – Where Has The Gang Gone?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Perils of Bad Names
by David Loshin
May 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- All Data is Not Created Equal
by Phil Simon - Books That Influenced My Thinking: Future Perfect
by Thomas Redman - Sometimes it's Okay to be Shallow
by Jim Harris - Addressing Usability of Acquired Data
by David Loshin - Build Your Data Quality Castle First
by Dylan Jones - Publishing and the Data Establishment
by Phil Simon - Books That Influenced My Thinking: Management
by Thomas Redman - Syncing versus Streaming
by Jim Harris - Facing Maturity: Devaluing your Data Warehouse – No History
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Myth of Supplier Data Quality
by David Loshin - Big Data Information Chain Challenges
by Dylan Jones - George Carlin and Big Data
by Phil Simon - Big Data: Dangerous to Sit this one Out
by Thomas Redman - Big Data: Structure and Quality
by Jim Harris - Big Data: Latent Latency
by David Loshin - Big Data "In the Air Tonight"
by Rich Murnane - Big Data: Use it or Lose it!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - On Uncertainty and Data Minimalism
by Phil Simon - Books That Influenced my Thinking: The Goal
by Thomas Redman - Could Unlimited Data Limit Data Silos?
by Jim Harris - Intent vs. Inference
by David Loshin - Solving the Data Migration Target Puzzle [Part 2/2]
by Dylan Jones - Dator: Leaving Earth…for Now
by Phil Simon - Books That Influenced My Thinking: Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control
by Thomas Redman - Integrating (Big) Data from External Sources
by David Loshin
June 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Managing the State of your Data more Effectively
by Dylan Jones - Analyzing the Google Plus Ghost Town Theory
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: The Trouble with Computers
by Thomas Redman - Is Social MDM Going the Wrong Way?
by Jim Harris - Skewed Little Results – Do They Really Matter?
by David Loshin - Road Trips!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - How to Speed up Data Quality Rule Deployment
by Dylan Jones - The Netflix Data Machine
by Phil Simon - More Thoughts about Social MDM
by Jim Harris - What About the Little Result?
by David Loshin - Exploiting the Functionality Gap
by Dylan Jones - The Zen of Solving Data Problems
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Mary Parker Follett Prophet of Management
by Thomas Redman - Will Social MDM be the New Spam?
by Jim Harris - Big Results vs. Little Results
by David Loshin - Playing at the Playground!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Process Control and Data Quality Software
by Dylan Jones - Fast Times and the Great Data Ownership Debate
by Phil Simon - Time for Standards?
by Thomas Redman - How Social can MDM get?
by Jim Harris - Where the Wild Things Are...
by Rich Murnane - Baseball and Data Quality
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Path to a Whole New Data Quality Universe
by Dylan Jones
July 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Pervasive Knowledge and Protection of Privacy
by David Loshin - It IS About the Data – Mergers and Acquisitions – Part 2
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Perils of Mining on Unstable Data Foundations
by Dylan Jones - London Calling
by Rich Murnane - The Apple Data Dichotomy
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Data Model Patterns
by Thomas Redman - The Unsung Heroes of Data
by Jim Harris - What They Do With What They Know
by David Loshin - It IS About the Data – Mergers and Acquisitions – Part 1
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Obesity and the Data Revolution
by Phil Simon - What Magic Tricks Teach us About Data Science
by Jim Harris - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Beyond Reengineering
by Thomas Redman - How to Cope with the "Data Avalanche"
by Dylan Jones - Facebook and the Future of Personal Data
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: The 48 Laws of Power
by Thomas Redman - What Mozart for Babies teaches us about Data Science
by Jim Harris - They are Watching What We Do
by David Loshin - When and Where to Cleanse in Data Migration
by Dylan Jones - The Data Collective
by Phil Simon - An Independence Day for our Personal Data
by Jim Harris - Little Result Precision Helps Add Value
by David Loshin - Teamwork!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
August 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Addressing Variation in Process Quality
by Dylan Jones - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Zuckerman and Hatala’s Incredibly American
by Thomas Redman - The Godfather of Data Governance
by Jim Harris - Unstructured Big Data and Data Quality
by David Loshin - Stop Here to Fix Your Brakes – If You Can
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - On Big Data, Books and Politics
by Phil Simon - What is Lifecycle-Focused Profiling?
by Dylan Jones - The War for Data Talent, Part II
by Thomas Redman - Data Quality and the Barber's Paradox
by Jim Harris - Unstructured Social Media Data: What is the Context?
by David Loshin - The Problem With Outsourcing Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - Self-Quantification
by Phil Simon - Are You Using a Quicksand Foundation?
by Jim Harris - Facing Maturity - Mastering the Enterprise Data
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Content and Context
by David Loshin - Risk Managers: Irrelevant or Impaired?
by Dylan Jones - The Politics of Data Whistleblowing
by Phil Simon - The War for Data Talent, Part 1
by Thomas Redman - Over the Data Governance Rainbow
by Jim Harris - The Need for Personal Data Governance
by David Loshin - It IS About the Data – Mergers and Acquisitions – Part 3
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Have You had a Reality Check Lately?
by Dylan Jones - Facebook, User Trust and Effective Data Management
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: The Social Life of Information
by Thomas Redman
September 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- Don't let Your Data Migration Take the Blame for Bad Legacy Data
by Dylan Jones - Data Lessons from Knight Capital
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Ries and Trout’s Marketing Warfare
by Thomas Redman - Data Sounding Board: The Data Asset
by Jim Harris - Machine-to-Machine Data and the Expectation of Data Quality
by David Loshin - IDEAS and The Five-Year Engagement
by Rich Murnane - Facing Maturity: Transforming the Methodology
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Make Data Migration a Keystone of Your Transformation Agenda
by Dylan Jones - Goldilocks and Data Layers
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Ries and Trout’s Positioning
by Thomas Redman - The Business Must Go On
by Jim Harris - Machine-to-Machine Data
by David Loshin - Nobody Said it was Easy...
by Rich Murnane - Organizing Disorganization
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - My Favorite IDEAS Moment
by Phil Simon - A Few Good IDEAS
by Jim Harris - My Favorite IDEAS Takeaway
by David Loshin - I Have an Idea!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Social Data Police
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Kent’s Data and Reality
by Thomas Redman - The Data Sharpshooter Fallacy
by Jim Harris - Organizing Content in Context
by David Loshin - Where Oh Where Did My Metadata Go?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
October 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- How-long-has-it-been-since-you-used-this-data-ween
by Jim Harris - Doing Data Governance the Right Way
by Tamara Dull - Data Federation and Data Virtualization - Still with Us?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Management: The Future Is Now
by Dylan Jones - Doctors, Data and the Value of Inaction
by Phil Simon - Data Management: The Next Generation
by Jim Harris - Tips for Creating a Business Case for Data Quality During Data Migration
by Dylan Jones - Product Ubiquity, Loss Leaders and Amazonian Data
by Phil Simon - Small Data and VRM
by Jim Harris - Know Your Customers
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas Redman - A Good Example of Semantic Inconsistency
by David Loshin - Dumpster Diving for Data
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What iOS6 Can Teach us About Data Quality
by Dylan Jones - The Value of Zero
by Phil Simon - Books that Influenced my Thinking: Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Thomas Redman - The Hindrance of Hindsight Bias
by Jim Harris - Monitoring M2M Data Values and Processes for Monitoring Validity
by David Loshin
November 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- 3 Tips For More Effective Data Profiling
by Dylan Jones - Big Data and the 2012 Presidential Election
by Phil Simon - Loss Aversion and Change Management
by Jim Harris - Exploiting Patterns in Event Sequences
by David Loshin - Prioritizing the Integration
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Big Data Needs an End in Sight
by Dylan Jones - Hadoop and the Great Sears' Big Data Experiment
by Phil Simon - The Seventh Law of Data Quality
by Jim Harris - Data Governance as an MDM Program Planning Task (Part 2)
by David Loshin - Why Data Quality Becomes Critical to CEP
by Dylan Jones - 5 Things I Know About Big Data
by Phil Simon - Crossing the Streams
by Jim Harris - Does Data Governance Make a Difference? Part 1
by David Loshin - So You Want To Play Master Data Management? Come Play With Me!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - We've Got Data Quality Issues – Now What?
by Dylan Jones - On Academia and Data Scientists
by Phil Simon - An Unsettling Truth about Data Governance
by Jim Harris - Innovation in Creating Information Products
by David Loshin - The Last of the IDEAS
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - On Stocks, CEP and Data Fundamentals
by Phil Simon
December 2012 ( View complete archive page )
- The Most Important Data Quality Strategy (You Probably Don't Possess)
by Dylan Jones - What Does the Future of Big Data Have in Store?
by Phil Simon - 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 3)
by Jim Harris - Monitoring for Event Patterns
by David Loshin - Getting Ready to Be a Better Company
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Seinfeld, Data and the Other 16 Percent
by Phil Simon - 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 2)
by Jim Harris - Analyzing Sequences of Events
by David Loshin - A Pirate Looks At 40...
by Rich Murnane - Can You Really Do a Good Job of Corporate Data Integration Without Quality?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Data Quality Reporting: Practice a Shift in Granularity
by Dylan Jones - 2013 Will be a Big Year
by Phil Simon - 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 1)
by Jim Harris - Understanding Sequences of Events
by David Loshin - Complex Event Processing and Data Quality
by Joyce Norris-Montanari
January 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- The Data Wars
by Phil Simon - When Poor Data Quality Calls
by Jim Harris - Data Inte-Aggregration
by David Loshin - Boston Thinks Big
by Phil Simon - Can we Measure the Half-Life of Data?
by Jim Harris - Employing Master Data Techniques for Data Inte-Aggregation in a Managed Way
by David Loshin - Rethinking Data Migration Success Criteria
by Dylan Jones - Facebook's Graph Search and the Data Card
by Phil Simon - Data has an Expiration Date
by Jim Harris - The Onus of Data Consolidation and Aggregation
by David Loshin - Exploring Hadoop for the Enterprise
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - What Can a 3-Year-Old Teach Us About Data Quality?
by Dylan Jones - The Burgeoning Data Marketplace
by Phil Simon - A Statistically Significant Resolution for 2013
by Jim Harris - Balancing Performance Measures for Data Accessibility using Data Federation
by David Loshin - Data At Your Fingertips
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Is Data the New Oil?
by Phil Simon - 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 4)
by Jim Harris
February 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Big Data and My Simple View of the World
by Phil Simon - Do the Eyes Have It?
by Jim Harris - I Fought the Law... and the Law Won
by Rich Murnane - Integrating MDM with your Data Warehouse
by David Loshin - 20 Encounters of the Information Management Kind - #1 Does Everyone Need Master Data?
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Defining Big Data: Is it a Big Deal?
by Phil Simon - Mirror, Mirror on the Data
by Jim Harris - Do You Have To Let It Linger?
by Rich Murnane - Master Data Model Requirements
by David Loshin - iTunes, Outer Joins and the Ubiquity of Data
by Phil Simon - Stop Tapping and Start Talking
by Jim Harris - Technical Requirements for MDM/DW Integration
by David Loshin - Want to Succeed with Data Quality? Make It Personal
by Dylan Jones - Big Metadata Revisited
by Phil Simon - Requirements Flux
by Jim Harris - Applying a Modern Programming Model to Data Inte-Aggregation
by David Loshin - The State of Texas in Taiwan!
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Beyond Provenance: Your Route to Increased Trust in Statistical Decision Making
by Dylan Jones
March 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- Amazon, Metadata, and Data Democracy
by Phil Simon - Stop Poor Data Quality STOP
by Jim Harris - Using a Master Index and Shared Metadata as an Entity System of Record
by David Loshin - The future of MDM?
by Dylan Jones - On Bloatware and Data Quality
by Phil Simon - This isn’t Jeopardy
by Jim Harris - Master Indexing and the Unified View
by David Loshin - 20 Encounters of the Information Management Kind - #4 No Data Strategy
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - The Many Costs of Poor Data Quality in Modernization Programs
by Dylan Jones - Big Accountability
by Phil Simon - What is Being Measured is Intrinsically Fuzzy
by Jim Harris - Data Virtualization in Complex Environments
by David Loshin - 20 Encounters of the Information Management Kind – #3 New Data (To File or Not to File)
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - Why Data Lineage is Your Secret Data Quality Weapon
by Dylan Jones - Big Data in Your Kitchen
by Phil Simon - Measuring is Intrinsically Fuzzy
by Jim Harris - Considering Master Data Dependence and Usability Requirements
by David Loshin - 20 Encounters of the Information Management Kind - #2 SAP as the Source System of Choice
by Joyce Norris-Montanari - MDM: Patterns for Organisational Success
by Dylan Jones
April 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- The Next Step: Enhancing the Master Data Via Data Warehouse Consolidation
by David Loshin - Where to Start with Overloading
by Dylan Jones - Big Data ROI: A Big Pet Peeve
by Phil Simon - Bursting Your Filter Bubble
by Jim Harris - Leveraging Master Data Management as a Tool for DW Consolidation
by David Loshin - Want to Become a Better Data Quality Practitioner? Change Your Lens
by Dylan Jones - Big Data and Analytics: Which is the Bigger Trend?
by Phil Simon - Use a No Brown M&M's Clause
by Jim Harris - Considering Success Factors for Data Warehouse Consolidation
by David Loshin - Decision-Making and the Invisible Information Chain
by Dylan Jones - Big Data: Get a Little Bit Pregnant
by Phil Simon - Cargo Cult Data Science
by Jim Harris - Reporting and Analytics Modernization through Data Warehouse Consolidation
by David Loshin - Data Quality: One Habit at a Time
by Dylan Jones - Breaking Bad, Data Scientists, and Jesse James
by Phil Simon - Don’t Mess with Data
by Jim Harris - Virtualizing Access through the Master Data Index
by David Loshin
May 2013 ( View complete archive page )
- On Publishing and Data Without Context
by Phil Simon - The IKEA Effect and Change Management
by Jim Harris - The Customer Network: Spheres of Influence
by David Loshin - On Data, Coffee and Analytics
by Phil Simon - The Decision Wobegon Effect
by Jim Harris - Modeling the Types of Customer Connections
by David Loshin - Data Quality, Trust and Consumer Behaviour
by Dylan Jones - Permission and Forgiveness
by Phil Simon - Change = WIIFM > WMETP
by Jim Harris - Customers and Connectivity
by David Loshin - Why Poor Data Quality is a Business Certainty
by Dylan Jones - Why Leapfrogging to Big Data Is a Bad Idea
by Phil Simon - Getting Schooled on Measurement
by Jim Harris




