Click to learn more about author Pascal Desmarets. Reality or not, the perception nowadays is that Data Modeling has become a bottleneck and doesn’t fit in an Agile Development approach. Plus, with NoSQL being “schema-less”, perception often is that there is no need for Data Modeling ahead of coding. You may pretend that it is not […]
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, […]
Four Open Source Tools to Start Your Analytics Journey
Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. As an adjunct instructor at University of Redlands, I teach several courses in the fields of business and technology. In that capacity I get to meet a lot of bright young people with a keen interest in data and Analytics. Unfortunately, the little financial resources most students […]
Data Architects and Data Modelers: The SQL/NoSQL Debate is Dead
Karen Lopez says that when it comes to surviving as a Data Architect, “Hybrid is the future.” It’s no longer enough to speak only one language or stay attached to one set of technologies. According to Lopez, “purely relational (SQL) databases don’t exist any longer,” since most applications developed now use various types of database […]
Computational Social Science
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. It seems I write something on the nature of Data Science every year. Early on, my take on DS was in motion, but now it’s much more grounded. My points of Data Science departure are the iconic “what is DS” pronouncements from Drew Conway and David Donoho. […]
Enterprise Data World 2018: Illuminating the Data Cave
In his Monday evening lighting talk at the Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2018 Conference, Daragh O’Brien remarked that coming to a conference like EDW is similar to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. It’s an opportunity to get out of the caves of our day jobs, move into the light, gain new frames of reference, and […]
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 […]
Data Surveillance, Monitoring, and Spying: Personal Privacy in a Data-Gathering World
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Americans have long been divided in their views about the trade-off between security needs and personal privacy including data privacy. Much of the attention has been on how government collects data or uses surveillance, though there are also significant concerns about how businesses use data. When a terrorist […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced for the 2018 Database Now Online Event
May 1, 2018 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for its second annual Database Now Online (DBO). The online conference will be held July 18, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time at databasenow.com. Anyone can register for free, and all registrants will receive access to the on-demand recordings, […]
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 […]