Shannon Kempe

Executive Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to DATAVERSITY—the new destination for learning, best practices and thought-leadership in the field of Data and Information Management. We invite you to join our growing community of industry experts and practitioners as we collaborate to bring you educational opportunities, news and insights on topics such as Data Governance, MDM, Business Analytics, Big Data, Unstructured Data and much more.

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Karen Lopez

MOST POPULAR

Blog Post: Normalization Myths that Really Make Me Crazy

At Enterprise Data World I gave a Lightning Talk, Karen's List of the Most Irritating Normalization Myths. This was a fast-paced, auto-advancing slides presentation with 10 slides covered in five minutes. I covered the types of things I've heard in design reviews that either didn't make sense or repeated some urban data legend. CLICK TO CONTINUE »

Michael Stonebraker

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
NewSQL vs NoSQL for New OLTP

Michael Stonebraker delivered his controversial keynote to rave reviews at the NoSQL Now! Conference on Wednesday August 24.

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Glenn Thomas

PRACTITIONER-TO-PRACTITIONER
The Difference in One Word

One of my favorite data stories goes back a few years ago when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its 'Bird Strike' database in 2009. This was just months after Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways Airbus A320 in New York's Hudson River after it suffered multiple canada geese strikes within 30 seconds of takeoff from LaGuardia. CLICK TO CONTINUE »

Jaime Fitzgerald

FEATURED ANALYST
Jaime Fitzgerald

Founder and President of Fitzgerald Analytics, Jaime Fitzgerald has developed a distinctively quantitative, fact-based, and transparent approach to solving high stakes problems and improving results. He recently joined the DATAVERSITY contributing team posting his first blog on Wednesday, October 12 Habits of Highly Effective Data Professionals: "Beginning with the End in Mind" that was an instant success followed by an equally popular blog: Behind the Netflix Debacle, A Core Data-Management Blunder.

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