OCDQ Blog

Published articles on the Data Roundtable in 2013-2012:

• The IKEA Effect and Change Management

• The Decision Wobegon Effect

• Change = WIIFM > WMETP

• Getting Schooled on Measurement

• Bursting Your Filter Bubble

• Use a No Brown M&M’s Clause

• Cargo Cult Data Science

• Don’t Mess with Data

• Stop Poor Data Quality STOP

• This isn’t Jeopardy

• What is Being Measured is Intrinsically Fuzzy

• Measuring is Intrinsically Fuzzy

• Do the Eyes Have It?

• Mirror, Mirror on the Data

• Stop Tapping and Start Talking

• Requirements Flux

• When Poor Data Quality Calls

• Can we Measure the Half-Life of Data?

• Data has an Expiration Date

• A Statistically Significant Resolution for 2013

• 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 4)

• 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 3)

• 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 2)

• 2012 Quarterly Review (Part 1)

• Loss Aversion and Change Management

• The Seventh Law of Data Quality

• Crossing the Streams

• An Unsettling Truth about Data Governance

• How-long-has-it-been-since-you-used-this-data-ween

• Data Management: The Next Generation

• Small Data and VRM

• The Hindrance of Hindsight Bias

• Data Sounding Board: The Data Asset

• The Business Must Go On

• A Few Good IDEAS

• The Data Sharpshooter Fallacy

• The Godfather of Data Governance

• Data Quality and the Barber’s Paradox

• Are You Using a Quicksand Foundation?

• Over the Data Governance Rainbow

• The Unsung Heroes of Data

• What Magic Tricks teach us about Data Science

• What Mozart for Babies teaches us about Data Science

• An Independence Day for our Personal Data

• Is Social MDM going the Wrong Way?

• More Thoughts about Social MDM

• Will Social MDM be the New Spam?

• How Social can MDM get?

• Sometimes it’s Okay to be Shallow

• Syncing versus Streaming

• Big Data: Structure and Quality

• Could Unlimited Data Limit Data Silos?

• Perception Filters and Data Quality

• The Lies We Tell Data

• The Illusion-of-Quality Effect

• Data and the Liar’s Paradox

• The Dark Side of the Mood

• Voyage of the Golden Records

• The Big Data Theory

• Swimming in Big Data

• Leaping over Calendar Effects

• Getting Your Data Governance Stuff Together

• WYSIWYG and WYSIATI

• Choosing Your First Master Data Domain

• Data Massage Therapist or Data Chiropractor?

• Why Can’t We Predict the Weather?

• Data Quality Mondegreens

Published articles on Data Quality Pro:

• Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 1)

• Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 2)

• Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 3)

• Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 4)

• Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 5)

• Interview with Jill Dyché of Baseline Consulting

Other Published Articles:

• The Interconnected User Interface

• The Role Of Data Quality Monitoring In Data Governance

• The Collaborative Culture of Data Governance

• Light Bulb Moments at DataFlux IDEAS 2010

Published articles on the Actian Big Data and Analytics Blog:

• Predictive Analytics, the Data Effect, and Jed Clampett

• Why Data Science Storytelling Needs a Good Editor

• The Flying Monkeys of Big Data

• Data-Driven into a Traffic Jam

• Speed Up Your Data to Slow Down Your Decisions

• Rage against the Machines Learning

• Big Data, Sporks, and Decision Frames

• It’s Not about being Data-Driven

• How Predictable Are You?

• Big Data, Predictive Analytics, and the Ideal Chronicler

• Data-Driven Intuition

• Is DW before BI going Bye-Bye?

• Darth Vader, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics

• Finding a Needle in a Needle Stack

Published articles on the MIKE2.0 Blog:

• Why You Need Data Quality Standards

• Data Dictatorship versus Data Democracy

• Bigger Questions, not Bigger Data

• The Internet of Humans

• The Enterprise Brain

• A Contrarian’s View of Unstructured Data

• Bigger Data needs Better Metadata

• Individual Contributors and Collaboration

• The Psychology of Collaboration

Published articles on the Trillium Software Insights Blog:

• Data Governance Trek

• What’s the Over-Under on Communication?

• Data Governance needs a Gravity Assist

• The Pull and Push of Data Governance

Published articles on the Informatica Perspectives Blog:

• Turn the Data Warehouse into a Glass House

• The Broken Telephone of the Data Warehouse

• When Delivery is Job One, Quality is Job None

Published articles on the Data Roundtable in 2011-2009:

• 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 4)

• 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 3)

• 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 2)

• 2011 Quarterly Review (Part 1)

• Decision-Driven Data Management

• The Data that Supported the Decision

• A Decision Needle in a Data Haystack

• 101 Broken Lightbulbs

• Satisficing Data Quality

• Data Psychedelicatessen

• Datenvergnügen

• The Year of the Datechnibus

• “What is is the was of what shall be”

• Data Geeks and Business Blindness

• Freudian Data Quality

• Are your Best Practices R.I.P.?

• In Search of an Anecdotal Antidote

• Song of My Data

• Data in the (Oscar) Wilde

• The Most August Imagination

• Being Horizontally Vertical

• Anarchy in the D-A-T-A

• Paleolithic Rhythm and Data Quality

• Knowing when to flip a coin

• Commander’s Intent

• Council Data Governance

• The Sixth Law of Data Quality

• The Philosophy of Expertise

• The Lost Art of Prototyping

• Rise of the Datechnibus

• George Mallory and Data Mountaineering

• The Moirae, Deadlines and Working within Limits

• Lycanthropy, Silver Bullets, and Master Data Management

• Necessity is the Mother of (Not Only Good) Invention

• Retrograde Organizational Motion

• The Technology Carousel

• Time Silos

• Let’s Meta a Data

• Data Quality Measurement Matters

• Sharing Data

• A Tale of Two G’s

• Data Knights Tweet Jam

• The Reptilian Anti-Data Brain

• Groundhog Data Quality Day

• Collaboration isn’t Brain Surgery

• Amazon’s Data Management Brain

• Forward-Facing Executive

• Are you Building Bridges or Digging Moats?

• 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 4)

• 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 3)

• 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 2)

• 2010 Quarterly Review (Part 1)

• Single Version of the Truth

• Jumping the Data Shark

• The SME Shadow Knows!

• Shared Responsibility

• Data Zombies

• Enterprise Ubuntu

• Don’t Do Less Bad; Do Better Good

• Video: Declaration of Data Governance

• Holistic Data Management (Part 3)

• Holistic Data Management (Part 2)

• Holistic Data Management (Part 1)

• The Fiscal Calendar Effect

• Data Quality in Medias Res

• The Fifth Law of Data Quality

• Who Framed Data Entry?

• The Seven Year Glitch

• Through the Data Gazing Glass

• Data Transcendentalism

• The Fourth Law of Data Quality

• Declaration of Data Governance

• Tacos, Ingredient Creep, and Data Quality Rigor Mortis

• The Root! The Root! The Root Cause is on Fire!

• DQ-IRL (Data Quality in Real Life)

• Predictably Poor Data Quality

• The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 4)

• The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 3)

• The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 2)

• The Quest for the Golden Copy (Part 1)

• Data!

• Thinking along the edges of the box

• The plan for the project looks so good

• Poor Quality: The Common Cold of Data

• Sour Data

• The Semantic Future of MDM

• Oughtn’t you audit?

• The HedgeFoxian Hypothesis

• The Third Law of Data Quality

• Data Quality is such a Rush

• Is DG a D-O-G?

• Eternal September and Tacit Knowledge

• The Second Law of Data Quality

• A Tale of Two Q’s

• What’s the Meta with your Data?

• Data Quality and The Middle Way

• The Twelve Days of Data

• The First Law of Data Quality

• My Own Private Data

• Sneezing Data Quality

• Why is data quality important?

• Data Quality in Five Verbs

• Data Quality, 50023

• Community Service