Data taxonomy

22 September 2025

Below a nice taxonomy of themes/areas in data, the ‘data landscape’ if you will:

  • AI, MLOps, machine learning
    • Generative AI / LLMs
    • MLOps
    • Machine learning
  • Data engineering, platforms and architecture
    • Architecture modernisation
    • Customer data platform
    • Data engineering
    • Data observability
    • Data platforms
    • DataOps
    • Event streaming
    • Modern data stack
  • Data governance, management and privacy
    • Data cataloguing
    • Data governance
    • Data literacy
    • Data management
    • Data marketplace
    • Data privacy
  • Data science, analytics and insight
    • Data workspaces
    • Graph databases
    • Modern analytics tools
    • No-code/low-code
    • Real-time analytics
    • SQL databases
    • Self-service analytics
    • Visualisation
  • Leadership, culture and process
    • Data culture
    • Data democratisation
    • Data fabric
    • Data mesh
    • Data strategy
    • Data transformation
    • Training and recruitment