by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
An effective CDO needs to have multiple skillsets to fulfill the demands of the job. At the minimum, the CDO should be tech savvy, customer-driven, security conscious, visionary, and a change-manager, according to Richard Y. Wang, executive managing director of the...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
If your data cannot be trusted, it is useless at best and downright harmful at worst. Senior Manager Karyn Thomas of BDO Australia emphasizes the need to have proof of the trustworthiness of the data that is being relied upon. ‘Gut Feel’ and ‘Blind Faith’ should be...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Gary Goldberg, chief data officer for Mizuho Securities EMEA, says that the CDO’s job is to answer business challenges around data, a leader to provide clarity and designate direction. “The role of the CDO is to try to navigate those conversations, gain consensus, and...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 4, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Marie Kondo’s advice about keeping only things that “spark joy” has a great deal of relevance for today’s data managers. Not all data is equally important and the costs of hoarding unproductive data can be quite substantial. Ian Matthews elaborates on why more data is...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 4, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Tools
Python is both easy to learn and is backed up with vast range of open source packages and libraries. Now it gets a further performance upgrade thanks to Intel’s Parallel Studio XE 2019. Richard Friedman tells more in this report from Inside HPC: Industrial strength...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 26, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech
A committee in the Hawaii state legislature has approved the introduction of new bills that would create the position of Chief Data Officer and the establishment of a task force to develop manage data policy for the state. Lucas Ropek reports on the bills taken up by...
