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Customers and Connectivity
May 07, 2013 by David Loshin
When you consider the development of strategies for integrating customer centricity into the breadth of business applications in different business functions, one emerging analytical focal point is social...
Big Data and My Simple View of the World
Feb 28, 2013 by Phil Simon
For a while now, I’ve had this working theory of the business world. In short, there are three types of people: 1) those who get it; 2) those that don’t get it but want to get it; and 3) those...
2012 Quarterly Review (Part 1)
Dec 05, 2012 by Jim Harris
Welcome to the unofficial 2012 quarterly review that I have decided to perform on the Data Roundtable. In this four-part series, I will select and summarize my favorite posts published on this blog during...
Obesity and the Data Revolution
Jul 20, 2012 by Phil Simon
A frequent topic on this site is sentiment analysis and that shouldn’t be a surprise here. Consider some recent trends: open APIs, a drop in start-up costs for new companies, fascinating new data...
More Thoughts about Social MDM
Jun 20, 2012 by Jim Harris
In my two previous posts, I briefly examined Social MDM – the integration of social media data into master data management (MDM) – including its three biggest challenges (Identity, Relevancy, and Privacy)...
Will Social MDM be the New Spam?
Jun 13, 2012 by Jim Harris
In my previous post, I briefly examined what I see as the three biggest challenges for Social MDM (Identity, Relevancy, and Privacy) from the perspective of organizations looking to integrate social media...
Sometimes it’s Okay to be Shallow
May 30, 2012 by Jim Harris
Big data seems like a daunting challenge because, as data management professionals, we have been taught by experts, and learned from experience, that we always have to dive deep into data in order to discover...
Big Data: Structure and Quality
May 16, 2012 by Jim Harris
It’s Wednesday on Big Data Week, and Jim Harris expands upon the definition of Big Data by looking at quality and structure… …
The Lies We Tell Data
Apr 18, 2012 by Jim Harris
In his blog post Big Data Quality: Think Outside the Box, Mark Troester explained that it doesn’t make sense to apply one data quality approach for all data. Instead, you should customize your data...




