Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.
CEO Dave McComb, President of Semantic Arts, noted during a talk in 2021 that one of his banking clients had customer US Social Security Numbers… Read More »Data protection problems, principles and identity solutions
According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) project called Cyber Seek, there are around a million people employed in cybersecurity roles in… Read More »Reasons for the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
Vendors, consultants, and their clients have been talking in data fabric terms for close to a decade now, if not longer. If “big data” was… Read More »Comparing data fabrics, data meshes and knowledge graphs
Law professor Eugene Volokh was apparently the first person to popularize the term cheap speech, in an article for Yale Law Review in 1995. Recently,… Read More »Countering Data Tech’s Cheap Speech
Robotic process automation (RPA) when it first gained attention five or so years ago disappointed me. Here was yet another stopgap measure, a digital form… Read More »Keeping Your Company’s Data Model IP
My mentors and compadres at Semantic Arts hold a Data-Centric Architecture Forum (DCAF) every year in Fort Collins, Colorado. It’s a chance for technically inclined… Read More »Seven data-centric architecture innovations that businesses can’t afford to overlook
Now I shall sing the second kingdom there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to Heaven. Dante Alighieri, The Divine… Read More »Today’s Data Purgatory and a History Lesson from the Energy Industry
I help lead a working group focused on personal knowledge graphs (PKGs). Lately, it’s functioned as a discussion and demo evaluation group for new technologies and… Read More »What Personal Knowledge Graphs Have to Do with Business
During the 1990s, the physics community began to measure the brightness of certain supernovae in a novel way. This new method supported the conclusion Edwin… Read More »Dark Energy, Dark Data
Data is useless if it doesn’t shed light. The more light it sheds on the most acute problems businesses face, the better. Within this context,… Read More »A different take on business intelligence
