Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. The General Data Protection Regulations (the GDPR) of the European Union may not have solved all data privacy issues in the European Union, but it has definitely cemented the all-important idea of data privacy into the world’s collective consciousness. On this two-year anniversary of the GDPR, […]
Retail, Analytics, and the Economic Crisis: Three Lessons Learned
Click to learn more about author Julien Gautier. Over the last month, the business world has come to a standstill with organizations across the business landscape scrambling to make sense of how to preserve revenue as the world grapples with the economic downturn associated with COVID-19. This is particularly true in one industry: retail. The […]
Data Management Hasn’t Failed, but Data Management Storytelling Has
Click to learn more about author Scott Taylor. Let’s not kill the messengers; let’s fix the messaging! In their recently published declaration, Data Management Has Failed!, John Ladley, Tom Redman, and a host of other long-time DAMA leaders drafted a call-to-action recommending the “bold, powerful moves” needed to secure business leader support for Data Management. […]
Why a Crisis Calls for Bulletproofing Your Applications and Infrastructure
Click to learn more about author Jim Hansen. We’re in an unprecedented global reality. Around the world, businesses have shifted to a remote work model, and, as a result, IT teams are under more strain than ever. Teams are remote. They’re dispersed to ad hoc home “offices” with children, pets, and significant others milling about. […]
The Structure of Concept Models
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. This is the third and final part of a three-part series. See part one Confessions of a Concept Modeler here, and part two Creating Concept Models here. In creating a concept model, you are designing a special kind of business blueprint, one crucial for information architecture, business […]
Real-Time Data Insights Crucial for Businesses Tackling a Crisis
Click here to learn more about Heine Krog Iversen. If you spend five minutes watching briefings by public health officials about how to respond to the current pandemic, one thing is certain: Their actions, suggestions, mandates, and predictions are based on real-time data. Companies should respond with a similar measure. With this global crisis upon […]
What to Expect from Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD)?
Click here to learn more about Anas Baig. The world is stepping into an era where the realization of data protection rights is at an all-time high. With Europe and North America already taking the steps towards data protection, Brazil is not far behind, drafting the LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais), which […]
Assessing the Risks and Challenges on the Road to Owning Training Data
Click to learn more about author Sameer Vadera. Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have an insatiable appetite for consuming data. Today’s AI models for business applications are built to ingest massive amounts of complex data sets. The cost of collecting and curating data for training AI models, however, can be staggering. In the context of the […]
Differential Privacy: An Introduction for First Graders
Click to learn more about author Alfred Rossi Okay, that title is a little bit of a lie — unless you are a first grader who happens to know a lot about data privacy or data science, in which case I’m happy to recommend some excellent bedtime reading. Now that differential privacy is once again […]
Fluree Launches JavaScript Library
According to a new press release, “Fluree, a North Carolina-headquartered startup that provides a data-first technology stack, has announced the release of the Fluree JavaScript Library, a feature included in Fluree V0.13.0 that enables developers to launch a version of Fluree as an in-memory, code-resident data source for front-end applications, enabling sub-millisecond data delivery. ‘Developers […]