Technology Articles
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 engineering...
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 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 you can...
When Data is not Data
It remains funny and sometimes this mistake is made in data science or data engineering.
Anecdotal vs. Statistical
May 2, 2022 | Technology
Something to think about... How often do examples, anecdotes come up in conversations (certainly since corona, but not...
Unstructured Data is not what you think it is!
Apr 25, 2022 | Technology
You come across this picture or something with the same message in all sorts of places. It seems logical, but there is...
Data Modelers vs. Data Architects
Mar 5, 2021 | People and Organisation, Technology
Often the roles are not clear or there are different expectations of a Data Architect versus a Data Modeler. This is a...
The Importance of UTF-8 in Data
Feb 25, 2021 | Technology
We assume that computers can "just" exchange information with each other.This is not true at all, and it is great to...