In my previous post, I talked about how a bank realized that data quality was central to some very basic elements of its initiatives, such as know your customer (KYC), customer on-boarding and others. In this blog, let’s explore what this organization did to foster an environment of data quality
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Showing the ugly face of bad data: Part 2
Writing data in chunks: Does the chunk size matter?
I often blog about the usefulness of vectorization in the SAS/IML language. A one-sentence summary of vectorization is "execute a small number of statements that each analyze a lot of data." In general, for matrix languages (SAS/IML, MATLAB, R, ...) vectorization is more efficient than the alternative, which is to
Better government data sharing reduces costs, improves services
For Parent’s Weekend this year, I needed to choose a restaurant for dinner in my son’s college town. Our extended family was attending the college football game and spending the weekend with our son. Before making my decision, I searched the internet for all the restaurants located within a reasonable