When presenting data models to business stakeholders, start with their business processes rather than technical details. Ask them to walk through their core workflows - this creates natural openings to explain how data modeling connects their processes. Avoid technical terms like "entities" or "cardinality" - use business language like "business units" and "connections." When explaining detail levels, relate it to their decision-making hierarchy. Tips: - Start with their process, not your data model - Use their business language, avoid jargon - Explain through workflow, not diagrams - Focus on business outcomes and decisions - Only detail when asked Remember: Your goal isn't to teach data modeling. Help them to enable business outcomes.

When you have a lot of data it's like having a lot of plums. Sure, you can eat some and it's nice for a while, but they get stale quickly and there's not much you can do with it. But! Plums can change form into rakija and rakija gets only better over time and you can do so much with it. That's why real analysts do data modeling. And drink rakija.

To explain data modelling to stakeholders i would simply cut out the technical jargon and focus on explaining the business value delivered by good data modelling. Some of the perceived business benefits of data modelling are a single source of truth avoiding confusion on numbers and other metrics across departments and easier and intuitive business reports. A good data model could give even business users an understanding on the data giving them the confidence to build reports on their own using tools like power bi or tableau.