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Digital Universe Study: Extracting Value from Chaos

July 27, 2011 by Barry Devlin
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"I've just been reading the 5th annual Digital Universe study from IDC, released by EMC last month. This year's study seems to have attracted less media attention than previous versions. Perhaps we've grown blasé about the huge numbers of bytes involved - 1.8 ZB (zettabytes, or 1.8 trillion gigabytes) in 2011 - or perhaps the fact that the 2011 number is exactly the same as predicted in the previous study is not newsworthy." [read more]

Metadata versus Taxonomy

October 11, 2010 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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I’ve advocated for many years that Information Management should be a superset of related disciplines including data warehousing, document management, library science, enterprise search et cetera.  While this is an easy statement to make, it is really hard to execute. The problem is that practitioners from the different technical... [read more]

Actionable Information Management Principles: People

July 4, 2010 by Steve Bennett
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I am now at the sharp end of creating an Information Management Strategy and Roadmap and I have started to draft a set of IM Principles while identifying practical ways for the organisation to make use of them. I have done some research and collected together my own thoughts.Here is where I need the help of the community. Over the next... [read more]

Early Indications April 2010 The Web of Opinion: Metadata as conversation

April 29, 2010 by John Jordan
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In the beginning, there was data, enumerating how many, what kind, where. Data was kept in proprietary formats and physically located: if the library was missing the Statistical Abstract for 1940, or some other grad student had sequestered it, you had little chance to determine corn production in Nebraska before World War II. Such... [read more]

The Battle of Britain: Thought Leadership in Information Management

March 16, 2010 by Teradata AusNZ
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In the London Blitz of 1940, Great Britain was staring down defeat and an imminent German invasion. With cities, industry and dockyards experiencing nightly destruction, Great Britain needed to out-think Germany. They did this through understanding the value of key indicators and command and control; I'll explain how. The evacuation at... [read more]

Defining Analytics: Data Warehousing

February 10, 2010 by Steve Bennett
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 Following-up to my blog 'Just Tell Me What I'm Doing', this is the second in a series of posts that define the key concepts and terms that make up my analytic world. Everything I do is coloured by my experience actually doing analytics in commercial organisations. So while I believe these posts will present practical definitions... [read more]

Defining Analytics: Data, Information and Knowledge

February 7, 2010 by Steve Bennett
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Following-up to my blog 'Just Tell Me What I'm Doing', I'm starting a series of posts that define the key concepts and terms that make up my analytic world. Everything I do is coloured by my experience actually doing analytics in commercial organisations. So while I believe these posts will present practical definitions that will be... [read more]

Public Information

November 5, 2009 by Steve Bennett
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In a past life I co-founded and led a company specialised in the analysis of publicly available textual information. The basic idea I had was that if you could read every newspaper published everyday, and throw in other easily accessible information sources like company filings to Stock Exchanges and national regulators, then you would... [read more]

#11: Here's a thought...

May 25, 2009 by BrianRoger
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An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:The eternal quest: better dataData governance and data quality are often the domain of data quality vendors, but any technology that can help your quest to achieve better data is worth exploring. Rather than fixing up data after... [read more]