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A 5-Step Framework to Do Machine Learning Right

Maya Mikhailov

SAVVI AI founder Maya Mikhailov argues for the breakthrough benefits of machine learning – and provides a framework to decide if the right conditions are present.

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Building a Data Governance Framework: 5 Best Practices

Kevin O'Callaghan

Head of Data Analytics, Teamwork

Kevin O’Callaghan of Teamwork describes a five-point approach to building a data governance framework that everyone will follow.

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Three Data Management Questions You Need to Ask

Rik Tamm-Daniels

GVP Ecosystem Alliances and Technology, Informatica

Rik Tamm-Daniels, Vice President of Strategic Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica, discusses three core questions companies must answer about their data assets in order to drive a strong and effective data culture.

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Myth-busting: Data Governance Edition

Laura Madsen

CEO, Moxy Analytics

Moxy Analytics CEO Laura Madsen takes on three of the most problematic, yet still surprisingly common, myths about data governance.

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Decentralized Data Governance as a Center of Excellence

Mark Palmer

Board Advisor, Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, Talkmap

Mark Palmer, Board Advisor at Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, and Talkmap, discusses whether data governance has become too charged a term, and highlights the benefits of decentralized data governance.

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Self-Service Analytics and the End of Metawork

Colm O'Grada

Director of Data and Analytics, Tines

Colm O’Grada of Tines describes how “metawork,” endlessly cycling conversations about trying to frame a business question, can be eliminated by empowering business users to self-serve for basic analytics needs.

Svetlana Kuzmenkova of Telstra, a DLC Contributor.

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5 Ways to Make Executives Your Best Data Advocates

Svetlana Kuzmenkova

Lead Solution Engineer, Salesforce

How do you make data advocates out of executives who dictate the data analytics and visualization they want? Telstra’s Svetlana Kuzmenkova explains her team’s approach.

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Getting people to “get it” in just 45 minutes – the promise and perils of data visualization

Steve Wexler

CEO, Data Revelations

Data Revelations CEO Steve Wexler imagines a 45-minute presentation to senior executives to show the benefits of data visualization as well as the perils, with the goal to make them data literacy advocates.

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The Ethics of Data Collection and Data Mining

Krystal Tsosie

Ethics and Policy Director, Native BioData Consortium | PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University | ASU School of Life Sciences

Krystal Tsosie, Ethics and Policy Director at the Native BioData Consortium and incoming faculty at Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, discusses how data collection and mining can become more ethical and how data leaders should approach creating and maintaining ethical standards for compiling and sharing data.

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Making Data Ethics a Leadership Priority: Roundtable Highlights

Multiple Authors

Five data leaders gathered to discuss the history and future implications of data ethics. These are some of the highlights.

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Why Data Management Must Be Driven by Automation

Wendy Turner-Williams

Data Leader

Tableau CDO Wendy Turner-Williams discusses how the sheer volume of data today demands data management automation in order to perform at scale, and describes how she has helped companies to automate data governance in real time.

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Five Ways to Find an Organizational Voice for Data Ethics

Colm O'Grada

Director of Data and Analytics, Tines

Colm O’Grada of Tines offers five best practices on how to bring data ethics to life in your organization.

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The Essential Link between Data Literacy and Data Ethics

Luke Stanke

SVP Data Analytics, phData

phData SVP of Analytics Luke Stanke argues that the ability to determine bias in data use is vitally connected to data literacy, and that data literacy has profound implications in successfully navigating data ethics.

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Creating a Data Governance Culture

Merav Yuravlivker

CEO and Co-Founder, Data Society

Merav Yuravlivker, Data Society CEO and Co-Founder discusses why successful data governance requires data literacy, a strategy, and a shift in culture.

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Where Governance Meets Stewardship: Getting to Trusted Data Faster

Nate Mayfield

Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Applications Service Excellence, Oracle

How do you create a data foundation everyone can trust? For Oracle’s Nate Mayfield, it’s a combination of a data governance team and a data stewardship team, both with a charter to act quickly when data quality is out of variance.

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Data Governance Literacy?

Laura Madsen

CEO, Moxy Analytics

So, what do trends, data literacy, and data governance have in common?

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Why Agile Master Data Management is a Non-Negotiable

Heidi Lanford

Chief Data Officer, Fitch Group

Generating optimism to make an MDM program work means you’ll run into pessimists.

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Self-Service Data: 5 Ways to Scale to Real-World Conditions

Nate Mayfield

Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Applications Service Excellence, Oracle

How do you create a data foundation everyone can trust for self-service analytics? Oracle’s Nate Mayfield shares a five-point approach.

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Should Data Leaders Strive to Replace Themselves?

Sukhmeet Panesar

Chief Health Officer at Monstarlab & Senior Adviser to Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England

Suki Panesar of HNS describes a radical view of career pathing in the data industry.

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Three Ways to Manage Data Teams During The Great Resignation

Kevin O'Callaghan

Head of Data Analytics, Teamwork

Tens of millions have transitioned to new jobs or careers in the past two years, and data teams are no exception. Head of Data Analytics at Teamwork, Kevin O’Callaghan shares three strategies for managing through these dynamic times.