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Data-driven decision-making has become a business norm, and the teams responsible for making it happen have grown far beyond a single analyst or a small IT function. Today’s data teams are specialized ecosystems built from multiple disciplines, each contributing a different piece of the puzzle: turning raw information into something a business can actually act…

Legal work is built on complex data: webs of entities, sequences of events, regulatory requirements across jurisdictions. It takes significant time to extract patterns from that data, and it can take just as long to communicate those patterns to partners, clients, or business teams.

Data models map the relationships between data entities and attributes in a way that “captures the business meaning of data,” according to consultant Peter Aiken. And they need to change as the makeup of an organization’s data changes, he said in a Dataversity webinar on data architecture and data modeling best practices.