Data Governance, Stewardship and Compliance Webinar Recording Available
The recent webinar I did for Embarcadero is now available for viewing. Enjoy. Karen Lopez on Data Governance, Stewardship and Compliance. If you are in the Chicago area, I will be be leading a similar...
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Data Governance and Stewardship Workshop, Chicago, 25 Jul – Join Me, We’ll...
On behalf of Embarcadero Technologies, I’m leading a workshop on Data Governance and Stewardship in Chicago, IL on 25 July. This event is free to attend; all you have to do is register. We’ll be...
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Nominate your Data Steward for a Stewie Award
Do you work with a fabulous Data Steward? You should nominate him or her for a Dataflux Stewie Award as part of International Data Steward Day, 11 October 2012. I’ll be part of a team of elite ninja...
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Health Data Breaches – Insider Data Trading?
It seems like the majority of health data breaches I read about are via insiders with access to patient information systems stealing and selling their data. Federal authorities say Sergei Kusyakov,...
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Utah Health Department – Yet Another Flashdrive FAIL (YAFF)
I think we need to have an industry acronym now that this seems to happen every week. My proposals: Yet Another USB Breach (YAUB) Blame A Thumbdrive (BLAT) Yet Another Flashdrive Fail (YAFF) I like...
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Why Data Privacy Breaches Aren’t Just about the Data
Some people believe that in an age of Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter, we should give up all our expectations of privacy. While I agree that I’ve been shocked by the amount of personal information...
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Big Challenges in Data Modeling–Data Model Governance
Join me and an excellent panel of industry experts in discussing the state of Data Modeling Governance. No, not Data Governance, but Data Modeling Governance. This free webinar is Thursday, 23 May...
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Stuff Their Databases Say
If you’ve been to one of my “Stuff Your Database Says” sessions, you know I collect photos of how my data is messed up by information systems. Many of my frequent flyer friends can confirm that...
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Join Me at Enterprise Data World and Save $200 + $200
I’ve been attending Enterprise Data World for more than 15 years. This event, focused on data architectures, data management, data modeling data governance and other great enterprise-class methods is...
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You’re Doing it Wrong: Generalizations about Generalizations
I have a couple of presentations where I describe how generalized data modeling can offer both benefits and unacceptable costs. In my Data Modeling Contentious Issues presentation, the one where we...
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Is Logical Data Modeling Dead?
One of the most clichéd blogging tricks is to declare something popular as dead. These click bait, desperate posts are popular among click-focused bloggers, but not for me. Yet here I am, writing an...
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TeamData Office Hours Report
In today’s office hours, we chatted about: Ugly Data Models Too many data models I see refused to use better colour combinations, professional fonts and readable designs. In a recent webinar I did for...
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Data Architects, It’s Time to Improve Your Data Classification
Jennifer Zaino has written an article based on my presentation at last year’s Enterprise Data World on Data Discovery and Classification. In this session I talk about data catalogs, data reverse...
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