Bøker av Peter Aiken

Do you know what a "PIDD" is? A PIDD is a Perpetual Involuntary Data Doner. Surveillance capitalists love PIDDs because PIDDs materially support the data extraction industry by unwittingly surrendering their personal information, paying for data transport and storage, and tolerating poor Internet/technology performance. Today, this quiet industry collects massive data about people to modify and control their societal behavior. Surveillance capitalists control behavior by exploiting people's low data literacy. Three things increase the magnitude of the challenge: Data volume continues faster than we can process. Poor data interchange costs drain citizen and organizational resources and productivity. Society's reliance on technologies has not materially addressed the gap.Our Digital Civics Framework (DCF) presents a guide to increasing the data literacy of billions of citizens or at least those connected to the internet. We outline the levels and types of data knowledge that society needs and propose exercises that will help citizens interact productively within a data-driven society. Unfortunately, far too many PIDDs allow surveillance capitalists to monitor their data. This type of monitoring comes at an expense to individuals, our communities, and society writ large. Completing this material will equip readers with a shared understanding of society and the role data plays in it.

Let the masters guide you on your Chief Data Officer (CDO) journey!The CDO is a new business role, and just starting to appear in state, local, and federal governments. Like many new roles, the CDO''s responsibilities are continuously evolving and changing. Most institutions are not consistent with assigning CDO responsibilities, and this lack of standardization is of great concern. Also, some say public and private sector CDOs are dramatically different. We don''t believe that. We think CDOs are more similar than dissimilar. More importantly, though, we think private and public CDOs can learn from each other. We''ve created this book to help all CDOs, public and private. This book is about ideas and recommendations which have broad application-on the shop floor, in a conference room, or even in legislative chambers. Apply our advice to smooth your ride during the CDO journey.Use our ideas and suggestions in ways that work for you, because every organization and data journey is different. These ideas are here to help you avoid some of our frustrations. We hope this can reach executives, managers, legislators, and others leading organizations to help bridge explanations of new vocabulary, ideas, and processes. Ultimately, we think this book will help you create data-centric value for your organization.

This text on data warehouse engineering takes readers from the planning and modelling stages right through to the implementation. It includes chapters on how to convert data from a legacy system to a modern data warehouse.