Advertisement

Data-Ed Webinar: The Importance of Metadata – 3 Leveraging Strategies

Download the slides here>> About the Webinar The first step towards improving data asset value is mastering organizational data leveraging capabilities. Improving your metadata practices effectively focuses on data leveraging strategies: Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice area required by all organizations. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than […]

Improving Data Quality with Data Stewardship

To get value from data, data stewards must understand and apply business requirements. When business ambiguity arises about how to best serve data stakeholders, data stewards need to know how to find out this information and with whom to speak. By doing so, stewards can align fit-for-purpose data with business needs and improve data quality. Data stewards understand […]

What Is Data Trust and Why Does It Matter?

A batch processing system fails on the eve of a company’s deadline for monthly reports, threatening the accuracy of its financials. One of the two systems powering the dashboard of a global supply chain company crashes, and a manager overbooks a transport ship because it displays inaccurate data, causing a costly delay in a customer’s […]

Data Ethics: New Frontiers in Data Governance

Would you feel comfortable serving as a Data Governance consultant for an organized crime family … but not for a brokerage with tax fraud in its past? Could the use of ransomware be considered socially acceptable if its demands benefitted needy children? These hypotheticals might sound outrageous – indeed, they are meant to be provocative – but […]

Foundations of Forensic Data Analysis

Forensic data analysis involves collecting, modeling, and transforming data to identify and highlight potential risk areas, detect non-standard or fraudulent activities that use data, and set up internal controls and processes to minimize a variety of risks. Data forensics can also be used in instances involving the tracking of phone calls, texts, or emails traveling […]

Data Storytelling 101

Humans are inherently wired for stories. Stories captivate our imaginations, simplify complexity, and provide context – and turn abstract figures into relatable scenarios. Data storytelling takes advantage of this human passion.  In data storytelling, the message is conveyed through engaging narratives, making the data insights inspire a high level of trust among the audience. It empowers stakeholders […]

EEDL Webinar: Lost in Translation — Why It Takes More Than Literacy to Make Sense of Data

Download the slides here>> About the Webinar Anyone who works in data-oriented professions knows that there are frequent misunderstandings between data and business professionals. In some cases, teams even develop a level of discord or animosity. The tension is almost predictable. Business professionals and data professionals don’t just use different terminology. They are trained differently, […]