Listen to this article: If you work with data, this may be the most important article you’ll read today. This week. Maybe even this year. It’s a bold claim, I know, but our profession needs to reorient its thinking. We Read more
Listen to this article: Would it come as a surprise to learn that “slop” was Merriam-Webster’s official 2025 Word of the Year? Me neither. Every day I see articles lamenting AI slop. I’d like to suggest a different perspective: Not Read more
Listen to this article: One of my favorite parts about doing this blog is the regular opportunity to explore ideas. It is called the Reservoir of Ideas after all. Some have found their way into articles. Others were either too Read more
Listen to this article: Through several articles this year, I’ve laid out a process for implementing Data Products, from Phase Negative One to Phase Five. Wouldn’t it be great it projects could be run that way? Everyone is aligned before Read more
Listen to this article: I was introduced to R.E.M. my freshman year in college. They played at Page Auditorium on campus about a month into the school year. The guy in the dorm room next door spent the rest of Read more
Listen to this article: They probably are. That’s right, I said it. Most Data Quality metrics are useless. Of course, that assumes that you have any to begin with. And by the time you finish this article you’ll agree with Read more
Listen to this article: Imagine it’s all done. Well, it’s never all done, but imagine it’s all there: definitions, expected content, data models, profiling, documentation, support processes. Everything we’ve spent so much time trying to make happen. It’s all there. Read more
Listen to this article: Corporate leadership doesn’t care about data in the same way that we do, nor should they. They don’t care about the details of Data Governance or Data Quality. Certainly not data models. They don’t (or shouldn’t) Read more
Listen to this article: In an earlier article, I highlighted the approach that some companies are taking of allowing, and in some cases encouraging, uncontrolled data replication. Replication may be an intentional executive strategy, although experience suggests it might not Read more
Listen to this article: Last week was the DGIQ-EDW conference in San Diego. It’s one of the leading industry conferences for data professionals, focusing on practical enterprise topics like AI governance, data architecture, stewardship, and organizational strategy. If you’ve never Read more