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The Return of Conceptual Data Modeling
Conceptual data modeling is making a comeback (some might say it never went away). In this episode of The Joe Reis Show, I chat with Sami Hero about the nuances of conceptual modeling in the age of AI.
If you’d like to learn more about con...
The Mixed Model Arts Manifesto
A historically accurate image of Martin Luther nailing his manifesto to the door.
A Call for Practical, Cross-Disciplinary Data Modeling
In an era when data proliferation outpaces our ability to derive meaning, traditional data silos -...
Ch 14 - The Levels of Data Modeling
Chaper 14 of Mixed Model Arts
This is the final unreleased chapter of Mixed Model Arts, Book 1. It is an agglomeration of various articles on the levels of data modeling published over the last couple of years. Examples have been updated,...
The Database Is Not the Data Model
In discussions with data practitioners, I keep seeing the same confusion. Someone pulls up a DDL file, a folder of dbt or SQL, or an ERD reverse-engineered from a Postgres instance and says: “Here’s our data model.”
Not to be pedantic, but...
The Turf Wars Are Over. Time to Cross-Train
There was a time you could win as a pure stylist, and plenty of people still can. A great boxer is still a marvel in a boxing ring. A great wrestler still dominates on the mat. Those crafts never stopped advancing, and the specialists who g...
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