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Data Modeling 101: OLTP data modeling, design, and normalization for the cloud

erwin

One must also capture the vast quantity of metadata around the OLTP business requirements that must be reflected. For example, the NoSQL database MongoDB has documents and collections instead of tables and columns. Figure 3: Example sentence diagram. So those database terms are worthless until you know what you’re trying to do.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

erwin

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. What Is Metadata? Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. It is metadata that turns information into an asset.”.

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Four Use Cases Proving the Benefits of Metadata-Driven Automation

erwin

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. Metadata-Driven Automation in the BFSI Industry. The banking, financial services and insurance industry typically deals with higher data velocity and tighter regulations than most.

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: How the Right Data Modeling Tool Drives Business Value

erwin

For example, an organization may have 300 applications, with 50 different databases and a different schema for each. The chosen data modeling tool should be able to read the technical formats of each of these platforms and translate them into highly graphical models rich in metadata.

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Data quality in healthcare: challenges and opportunities

Collibra

A classic example of how a data anomaly or an out of range value causes skewed outcomes. . Another example occurred in England when a single technical glitch let nearly 16,000 COVID-19 cases go unreported and The Washington Health Department had to roll back data posted on the dashboard due to errors discovered.

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A Guide to CCPA Compliance and How the California Consumer Privacy Act Compares to GDPR

erwin

These include: Medical information covered by the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Remember the Facebook hearings and now inquiries into Google and Twitter, for example? CCPA does make distinctions, particularly when other regulations may overlap.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

For example, although there are clear benefits to medical research from giving researchers access to anonymised medical data, it remains a matter of concern to the public, the media and the profession itself. I will highlight, rather at random, some other examples which need reflection. I am sure that many noble Lords use statins.

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