You find a Data Quality issue – so what happens next? In my latest Substack article I provide an overview of Data Issue Management. https://t.co/GQLe6tPZBs #data #dataquality #dataissuemanagement #metadata

Data in Space? It seems there are plans to put data centers in space. Abundant solar energy, easy cooling on dark sides of satellites, no permitting or objecting neighbors – all seem to be aligning to drive this move. But what about data sovereignty? Do GDPR and CPRA apply in

AI - Is Data Our Enemy? I heard an interesting take on AI this weekend. In the US, our AI is based on huge amounts of data that has to be centrally stored in data centers. But will there be any meaningful revenue generated from the AI? There is no obvious answer. It seems in

How would you explain Data Quality to a businessperson? I try in my latest Substack article: https://t.co/yTv0kX5R3F #dataquality #data #datagovernance #datamanagement

Have Data Products supplanted Critical Data Elements as the unit of managed data? I hear a lot less about CDE’s these days, and I do not think it is because CDE’s have become routine. Perhaps there is only so much energy that can be directed to Data Governance and Management in

We hear a lot about AI driving efficiency – presumably leading to reduction in force (job losses). But instead, what if AI enables enterprises to do things that are not done now? There are a lot of mundane tasks that are just not cost-efficient for humans to do. There are a lot

How did Third Party Data become such a big business, and what is the role of Data Acquisition? Read all about it in my latest Substack article: https://t.co/Lk9H3QplDe #data #datagovernance #dataaquisition #metadata

What is the Intrinsic Value of a Data Center? With all the talk about them it would be good to know. I could not find out directly, but I can get a reasonable estimate of their worth as scrap. The scrapping industry application iScrap surprisingly has a scrap category for

Riddle me this, you Data Governance illuminati: If a Data Owner owns the data, and a Data Product Owner owns a data product, including the data, then who really owns the data? I’m sure Hegel (below) would have loved this one. Is anyone up to going though the Thesis > Antithesis

Data Quality: What about Prevention? We talk a lot about DQ rules and Data Observability, but these are essentially detective. They signal that a DQ issue has or has not occurred. Data Issue Management – how a DQ issue is remediated - is even more remote from Data Issue

AI Data Bloat – A Source of Cost? Before AI started transcribing online meetings, and storing videos of them, I would have to take notes and send them out afterwards – usually 2 pages in Word. This year I started to summarize transcripts, and the first one shocked me - a 96 page

If we want AI, we have to have data centers. But it looks like data centers are becoming less popular among ordinary folk in the USA. The “data” is ambivalent on this point, with some surveys showing positive attitudes and others showing the opposite. Of course, surveys can be

Different narratives about AI are out there and causing confusion. Is AI good, bad, doomed, or promising? In my latest Substack post I review each of these narratives and how they match and diverge. Which of these narratives will win? You be the judge. https://t.co/un4OKM9jCf

The Promise of AI Is…You will lose your job and not be able to find another. I only seem to hear AI providing efficiency gains in enterprises, and growing the bottom line. This is quite different to the https://t.co/VnDaJremfW bubble of 1999-2000. Yes, it had an efficiency or

“AI Slop” – What Is It? I was too lazy to think for myself, so I asked ChatGPT. It gave me an AI Slop response, which I have not edited (below). Is this an AI Slop definition of “AI Slop”. Or is it a good definition – after all, who better than ChatGPT to know what “AI Slop” is?

I asked ChatGPT and Perplexity to each write a sonnet about Data Governance. My idea was to see which was better, but I was shocked to see that the results had significant similarities. In both: The first line is almost identical. The first quatrain has similar ideas of flowing

How does Data Literacy play into GenAI? Maybe it is more important than many think. I explore this topic in my latest Substack article: https://t.co/Xko95BEX5K #data #ai #dataliteracy #ailiteracy

Data Quality “Resolutions”. They can either fix the root cause, or be a workaround. I suspect there are a lot more workarounds that people think. A big problem is they are not documented sufficiently to distinguish them from core solutions for business requirements. So, in any

Data Quality (as per the commonly agreed dimensions) seems to be a subset of things that go wrong with data. E.g. data not being backed up on time, or purged on time, are data issues, but do not fit the classical DQ definition. So, are we missing a significant delta between

I spent the weekend learning how to do PROMPT INJECTION! It’s such fun, and totally addictive. And there are great resources out there to help us all become good at it. Of course, you can ask ChatGPT (as I did in the image below), but there are also lots of helpful YouTube