The Data Innovation Summit is the largest and the most influential annual Data and AI event represented across several regions, bringing together the most innovative minds, enterprise practitioners, technology providers, start-up innovators and academics, working with Data Science, Big Data, ML, AI, Data Management, Data Engineering, IoT and Analytics, in one place to discuss … [Read more...] about Data Innovation Summit ANZ
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Data Swamps and The Tragedy of The Commons
A silent alarm rings in my head whenever I hear someone utter the phrase, "data is everyone's responsibility." You can just as easily translate this to mean that "data is no one's responsibility," too. This, readers, is what I call the "data tragedy of the commons." Here's why. The term tragedy of the commons comes from economic science and refers to situations where a common … [Read more...] about Data Swamps and The Tragedy of The Commons
Data Lineage is Broken – Here Are 5 Solutions To Fix It
Data lineage isn't new, but automation has finally made it accessible and scalable-to a certain extent. In the old days (way back in the mid-2010s), lineage happened through a lot of manual work. This involved identifying data assets, tracking them to their ingestion sources, documenting those sources, mapping the path of data as it moved through various pipelines and stages of … [Read more...] about Data Lineage is Broken – Here Are 5 Solutions To Fix It
Is “Self-Service” Data’s Biggest Lie?
Data self-service, the ability for stakeholders in the organization to answer their own business questions with data, is a top initiative for nearly every data leader I've spoken to this year. It's so foundational to creating a data-driven organization, that most of the questions surrounding it focus on the "when" rather than the "why." That's why we were surprised to hear it … [Read more...] about Is “Self-Service” Data’s Biggest Lie?
6 Crucial Steps For Setting Your Data Team KPIs
As analytics professionals, we deal in data: serving ad-hoc reports on a minute's notice, pulling queries for executives, and generally forecasting company performance across a variety of metrics. But how can we be truly successful if we don't measure our own performance, too? In this article, we discuss six important steps to setting goals for our own data teams, from taking … [Read more...] about 6 Crucial Steps For Setting Your Data Team KPIs