How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff
When you come face to face with unfamiliar data, how do you proceed? How do you avoid sending you and…
An app ecosystem for health
Facebook as some 550,000 apps, according to the Wall Street Journal. Among the most popular are Farmville, a virtual farm…
Trust is not a checklist
This is my seventh blog post tagged Karma since I promised to discuss it directly and indirectly on my blog…
Visualization Methods
I thought this was worth sharing….Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. It shows some good examples, and some not so good…
Create a Slippery Slope
Enterprise information initiatives, such as data governance, master data management, data quality, and business intelligence all face a common challenge—they…
The IM Strategy Stack
I have been trying to present the elements of an IM strategy and came up with a 'stack' view that…
How are Predictive Analytics related to Performance?
A few months ago, I posted a video blog to start a conversation around the term "Analytics". I had asked you:How…
Metadata versus Taxonomy
I’ve advocated for many years that Information Management should be a superset of related disciplines including data warehousing, document management,…
Data Cleanup: Michael Clayton and The Consultant’s Role
I recently attended the DataFlux IDEAS 2010 Conference in balmy Palm Springs, CA. I finally had the chance to meet…


