The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

© Martin Treder 2020

M. TrederThe Chief Data Officer Management Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_7

7. The Data Language

Martin Treder¹ 

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Königswinter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

Figure 7-1

“Do we need one language?” – “Define ‘language’…”

Characteristics of language

Don’t we all speak English?

For people to understand each other, it is not enough that they sit in the same room and that all of them can speak and hear.

This statement becomes obvious as soon as you think of someone from Greece and someone from Indonesia trying to communicate with each other.

The same applies to different industries, organizations, and departments. And ...