Data Warehousing Quotes

social networks are the new public records. All that you share, wittingly or not, is being scraped, sorted, and warehoused by newly emerging global data behemoths and sold to advertisers, governments, and third-party data brokers, each with an increasingly voracious appetite to know the most intimate details of your life. These

It’s not simply a matter of accumulating data points, though in the early stages there is a necessity to take the raw material on-board. If anything, rather than carrying a large inventory, knowledge arrives “just in time”, without the expensive overhead of warehousing, in response to the needs of time, place, people and circumstances.

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Data warehouse support people should be physically located in the business user departments, and while on assignment, should spend all their waking hours devoted to the business content of the departments they serve. Such a relationship engenders trust and credibility with the business users, which ultimately is the “gold coin” for IT. Mistake

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The recklessness, damage, narcissism, and self-righteousness of the Snowden camp do not invalidate all their aims. A debate on the collection and warehousing of meta-data was overdue.

Health analytics follows a kind of 80/20 rule where 80% of the effort is expended on obtaining, cleaning, warehousing, and tabulating the data.