Consistency over Flexibility

Consistency over Flexibility

This sounds strange, because surely, in our working environment, we mainly want flexibility to respond to new things, to react quickly? When car manufacturing was designed as an assembly line at the beginning of the last century, it turned out that there were plenty...
Layers of Knowledge (Graph)

Layers of Knowledge (Graph)

You can model reality intricately, you can also do it smartly and then make sure systems can easily handle it as well. Nice article by Katariina Kari on the approach at IKEA. Here’s how it can be done. Knowledge Graphs is how more and more is captured in...
The many layers of Data Lineage

The many layers of Data Lineage

Nice article in Medium on #datalineage by Borja Vázquez Barreiros.Data lineage is a tricky one, though so important if you want to do more with data. Besides determining what kind of lineage you need, collecting the data needed for the data lineage there is then: how...
Data Roles Bingo

Data Roles Bingo

This may become a sort of #bingo, but what data roles do you know in your organization? The list I was able to compile is (alphabetically): AI Scientist Analytics Translator BI Specialist Business Analyst Chief Data Officer Data Analyst Data Architect Data Consumer...
Data Lake House

Data Lake House

In case you’re pretty content with your data lake (or not at all), it’s time to upgrade the implementation around the data lake. While logically a data lake can still consist of raw, enriched and curated (or bronze, silver and gold, just pick a label) and...