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Some blasts from the past
This professional blog is new, but I’ve been keeping a personal blog for years. Occasionally I have written in it about professional topics. Some particularly interesting posts in their original...
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The Business Doesn’t Care About the Data
The data management literature is full of exhortations to recognize business needs: hold workshops to gather requirements, get approval for data models, appoint Data Stewards with a vested interest...
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In praise of the Issue Log
Currently I am doing a data architecture for performance measures. My client wants a few special tweaks, and my intuition has been making me worried: are those features feasible in Business...
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Sample diagram: data model for mutual funds
This is a classic entity-relationship diagram, also known as a data model. I use this notation to understand the kinds of things your business deals with, the relationships between them, and the...
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Onomastic colonialism: People in power seldom change their own names
I’ve recently finished reading Names, Numbers and Northern Policy: Inuit, Project Surname, and the Politics of Identity. It was an excellent book: it makes an important point logically and briefly with...
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On contract to Toronto Solid Waste
My current contract (until February 2016) is with the City of Toronto. I am a Project Manager / Data Modeller, building an information architecture of the entire Solid Waste Management Services...
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