Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Building Data Models from Meta Models Recently, I worked with a government client on a Knowledge Graph kind of project. Being government, much of their data is public information. And, consequently, so are the data models. Instead of diagramming the same data all over again, I decided […]
Design Thinking Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. I seriously believe, and I also know from professional experiences that Design Thinking is the secret sauce for creating high quality Data Models. This sounds contra intuitive, so we will have to do some debunking: ”Design Thinking – isn’t that for designing good looking products, like watches, […]
Detecting Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Did you ever dream about becoming a famous detective? A new (teenage, possibly) Sherlock Holmes? Well, in the area of Data Modeling you now have good chances of showing off how good you are at detecting. What? Well, detecting the data models from evidence, of course. This […]
Whither Data Modeling Education? (The Future of Data Modeling)
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Machine Generated Looking at machine generated data makes you wonder about the Data Modeling of such. Whodunnit? Actually, the whole Big Data tsunami was caused by ‘machine generated’ data coming in in great numbers. Unstoppable. We all know that ‘machine generated’ is not really a proper description […]
How to Make Decisions About Data Modeling Relationships in Databases
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. When you face highly connected data, you might have to choose between Relational vs. Graph. Which one is better? The answers became clear to me, when I asked people from both camps using two (non-scientific) questionnaires. It is not rocket science, but you still need to do […]
How Not to Get Lost in 2018 with Knowledge Graphs: Map, Graph, Go!
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Losing your way is easy. Much of Data Modeling in the search, analytics and reporting spaces have been focused on the fabulous five W-words. The hope is to try to answer the Why-question: We have been throwing technologies at this for quite some years now: Plain old […]
Say No More: Verbal Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. ”Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more”. Says British Eric Idle in the third Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode, “How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away” from 1969. Indeed, it should not be necessary to say more, once […]
Property Graphs: The Swiss Army Knife of Data Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Happy Days Are Here Again! At least for all of us, who get a kick from new data base technologies. This is much like the repeal of probation in the 1930es (where “Happy days are here again” was a new and popular song). These days the V-commandments […]
“Talk to me, Data!” – Getting Data Models Right
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. The title of this post sounds as if it is a quote from a Star Trek episode. I don’t believe it is, but a lot of the dialogue involving Lt. Commander Data is indeed about understanding. Here is an example from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Starship […]
State of the Art of Data Modeling?
Click to learn more about video blogger Thomas Frisendal. When I googled “state of the art” “data modelling” (European spelling), I got: An Overview of State-of-the-Art Data Modelling – Events – ACSE – The An Overview of State-of-the-Art Data Modelling Data Modelling: Introduction and State of the Art – Springer Type Systems: Introduction and State of […]