May 20th TDWI Dallas Chapter Meeting
June 19, 2008On May 20th, I attended The Data Warehouse Institute, (TDWI), Dallas Chapter meeting. It was a long day trip from Austin, but a good networking opportunity and my first TDWI meeting. The meeting was held at the new Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine. It has a large indoor water park and caters to families. If we had one in Austin, I’d be tempted to check in the family for a cheap vacation.
Bill Inmon spoke on The Data Warehouse 2.0 and unstructured data. He really packed them in; I think attendance was close to 160.
For creating an unstructured Data Warehouse, he gave an example of writing a custom parsing engine to tag keywords in Oil and Gas contracts. It has a lot of potential, but he did not give many details. My new friend, Mike Lampa from TeamDNA gave a overview of the recent Chicago TDWI World Conference.
