GDPR – Expedition Data

Don’t do data management just because you have to

Lately more and more organizations are doing data management. Suddenly there are data owners, data stewards and metadata repositories (in whatever form) everywhere. We all seem to do this mainly because we have to. Because of the GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Or because other institutions demand we can explain where our data comes from.

But in my oppinion there is one important reason that mostly is overlooked. One that nevertheless has an important positive impact on business results, but also doesn’t seem to end up in the KPI’s. And that is how much time it takes to find the right data when building data products. (more…)

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 5 yearsFebruary 3, 2021 ago

Conferences

Dataworks Summit Berlin 2018, day two

Back for round two of keynotes, good technical sessions and discussing them with fellow data specialists in between. Keynotes First up was Frank Säuberlich from Teradata, who had an interesting example of machine learning for fraud detection at Danske Bank. They used transaction data sort of as pixels and ran Read more

By Marcel-Jan Krijgsman, 8 years ago