fieldnotes Give a business owner an empty catalog and watch nothing happen I'm generally a best-practices person. I think there's wisdom in the consensus positions that the data governance community has built up over decades, and I try not to be contrarian for its own sake. But some recommendations read like they were written for an organization
signal How Apple and Jobs influenced how I run my data shop Thanks to some heavy recommendations from Macbreak Weekly, I ordered David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years. I’m about a third of the way through and it’s a denser read than I was expecting. I’ve seen some speculation online that it might be too technical, but
schema Creating a generation of power users Let's start with a distinction that doesn’t get the right level of attention. In your organization right now, you have passive data consumers and active data consumers. Passive consumers want reports in their inbox every Monday morning, formatted in Excel with formulas, "just in case someone
