Just the Facts
Welcome to the intriguing realm where data seems to be everywhere we look. It runs in apps, drives businesses, and shapes public opinions and politics. As data affects our daily lives, we must pay more attention to what the data is about and how we communicate as human beings.
It is not the data itself, but our communication about the data that builds bridges of understanding. This book aims to bring a holistic view to three distinctive audiences, enabling all to communicate about data and collaborate more effectively. Thanks to our human capability to communicate, we can build bridges that connect people, transcend silos, and align technology in a way that propels organizations forward into this digital age.
Fact Oriented Modeling with FCO-IM
This book discusses the basics of the FCO-IM modeling process and illustrates the transformation of such information models to other techniques: not only to relational models, but also to Entity-Relationship diagrams, UML Class diagrams, Dimensional models, Data Vaults, etc. Full details of these transformations go beyond the scope of this book, which mainly intends to be an introductory book to advocate the advantages of FOM modeling techniques and for learning the FCO-IM modeling procedure.
Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling
It not only discusses the structure of FCO-IM information models, but also gives a detailed working procedure to draw up models.
Topics include subtyping, generalization, recursive identification structures and generating optimal normal form database schemas.
The book is used as a textbook in higher education as well.