It's hard to say whether workflows or Venn diagrams are my favorite. Lately, it seems to have been workflows non-stop. It probably has something to do with my background in music. I like the flows of melodic lines. In any event, below is a workflow for a data governance framework that brings each of these [...]
Category: The lyricism of data
Infrastructure!
No, this isn't about Congress and the latest efforts to allocate funding to infrastructure. It's a thoughtful whitepaper from October 2020 that I just got around to reading, the product of research by Siegel Family Endowment. "Infrastructure: Building the Future We Deserve" resonates with me because it speaks to themes that reflect how I think [...]
I say data governance–you say data governance
I recently heard from a longtime colleague in the world of open source software. She is heading up an open standards initiative at IEEE, the international standards body for engineering, computing, and technology information. She invited me to lead a "data governance" project. In our conversation (after I said "of course") we talked a bit [...]
Brahms vs Wagner
It has been a year since we began our isolation. I continue to sign up to as many Zoom conferences and panels as possible. It has been a time of learning. The upside. Today I am remembering an extended exchange on the topic of whether data is the new oil. Here are some excerpts, the [...]
Ecosystems, through-lines, and Professor Viamonte
Lately I have been writing about how to create solutions that cut across a market with participants of unequal wealth or power. In other words, you see a complex ecosystem and wonder if there's some way to connect all participants in a way that brings benefits to the underserved and favored alike. I keep thinking [...]
The big tech vendor and trust
The “original gangster of big tech” has managed to dodge the bad headlines and congressional grilling that have ensnared its rivals by working with regulators and advocating its own solutions. --Daria Solovieva | 01.10.19 | Fast Company I was raising money for my first startup back in 1998. It was the seed round which focused [...]
The battle over personal data
Our adversaries are no longer international despots or dictators, they are multi-national companies who exploit every byte of data we produce to achieve unfathomable riches for themselves. Those who possess intelligence on our psyches revealing things we don’t even know about ourselves. --Chris Herd | June 27, 2018 | Medium I live and breathe personal [...]
Follow the money
My team and I participate in a number of groups trying to devise an ethical framework that guides data-driven applications and algorithms. Participants ask what data? How is it collected? How is it used? Does it drive greater fairness? Does it perpetuate bias? Are the answers all hidden in a black box architecture. I have [...]
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