When you use Google, pick a movie from Netflix, talk to Siri or Alexa, or look for your nephew on Facebook, you’re benefiting from Knowledge Graph technology. DATAVERSITY® recently caught up with the three co-founders of TopQuadrant, CEO Irene Polikoff, CTO Ralph Hodgson, and CMO Robert Coyne, to get their perspective on Knowledge Graph technology […]
Data Wrangling is a Problem
Click to learn more about author Pete Aven. Data Wrangling is bad. Yet we all do it, every single day. In a nutshell, Data Wrangling , also known by the more technical term of “data munging,” is the process or transforming data from one shape into another to prepare it for analysis and deliver some unified […]
Build a Culture of Trust to Tackle Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Robert Brown. The raging debate over privacy has only gotten bigger in the wake of GDPR. Trust is now a competitive factor. How do businesses earn it? How do they keep data open, free and protected? The manifold issues stirred up by Data Privacy, related legislation, and the risks […]
Do You Know Where Your Data Came From?
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few years (and if you have, no judgement), you know there has been growing cultural concern over data privacy and legitimacy. This is the age of fake news and consumer data monetization. Just last month, Google bought credit card […]
Data Governance and the Maturity Assessment Model
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. There is no “one model fits all” for maturity assessment. Maturity assessment is a powerful technique that can be leveraged by organizations to help assess themselves against external and internal benchmarks. One can compare Division to Division, Function to Function and Firm to Firm by leveraging a maturity […]
CodeLathe Announces Availability of FileCloud in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
According to a recent press release, “CodeLathe, a provider of the cloud-agnostic enterprise file sync and sharing (EFSS) solution FileCloud, today announced availability of its latest FileCloud with metadata support in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. FileCloud customers can now take advantage of the […]
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: How to Choose?
Trying to decide on a data lake vs. data warehouse for your organization? As Kelle O’Neal, CEO and founder of First San Francisco Partners, pointed out during her presentation at the DATAVERSITY® 2017 Enterprise Analytics Online Conference, you don’t need to choose just one: Many organizations use both a data lake and data warehouse. That’s […]
Intelligent Data Management Supports Better Data Access
Data access is a right, not a privilege. That philosophy may not be directly stated by companies, but certainly they have moved in that direction. Of course, it’s understood that not everyone is entitled to access all data. Nonetheless, the landscape has changed from the days when IT primarily held the keys and access was […]
Making the Best Use of Your Business Intelligence Solution
Click to learn more about authors Tejasvi Addagada and Gopi Maren. Every day organizations rely on reports to understand information in their day-to-day operational and strategic decisions. For all the dashboards or score-cards, today’s data is sourced from distributed and disparate sources of data. When we hear from someone in the organization that “My reports […]
Detailing Data Assets with Proper Citation: A Professional Responsibility
Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. We need to update Mark Twain’s distinction between figures that do not lie and liars who figure. We need the following addendum: Data may or may not be dispositive, but every piece of data (and all of our metadata) must have a citation. We need this […]