Business

A Business Lesson from an Oil Change

When I first moved to the city where I now live, I found an oil change place just a couple of miles from my house. The location was convenient and I never had any major issues with the service there, so it became my go-to shop for automotive oil changes and other light maintenance tasks. One day, when I was…


Knowing Your Data

Is it possible to be an effective data professional without knowing anything about the domain of data you support? I remember having a conversation a few years ago with a friend of mine, a fellow data practitioner. In his role as a database administrator, he asserted, he could do his job without knowing anything about the underlying data. His argument…