The Key to Organizing Data Analysts: Federate!

Dec 13, 2021 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Federating data analysts provides all the benefits of both decentralized and centralized models with few of the downsides.

Data Catalog Evaluation Spreadsheet

Dec 13, 2021 by Sanjeev Mohan in Guest Blogs

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This Excel spreadsheet (see right) provides a scoring framework for evaluating and ranking multiple data catalog products. It consists of 12 categories, 31 capabilities, and 200+ features for comparing and contrasting data catalog products. You can tailor the criteria and weights to your...

Keys to Data Success: Lessons from “Fail Fast, Learn Faster”

Dec 13, 2021 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Randy Bean’s new book, Fail Fast, Learn Faster, chronicles the Big Data revolution and offers pithy advice to data leaders distilled from consulting work.

SQL for NoSQL Data

Dec 13, 2021 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Lack of SQL language for NoSQL data limits the value of the data and of a SQL-skilled workforce. What we really need is a SQL language for NoSQL.

The Five Shades of Observability: Business, Operations, Pipelines, Models, and Data Quality

Dec 13, 2021 by Kevin Petrie in Decoding Data Software

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It’s tempting to dismiss observability as another overused buzzword. But this emerging discipline offers substantive methods for enterprises to monitor and optimize business metrics, IT operations, data pipelines, machine learning models, and data quality.