A simple technique for improving data accuracy
Dylan Jones says one way to improve data accuracy is to increase the frequency and quality of reality checks.
Tag: Data Profiling
A data governance primer, part 3: Data quality analysis and the diamond in the rough
The third part of my data governance primer series addresses data quality analysis. Don’t even start a data quality analysis until you have completed the first two steps of your root cause analysis: investigate and prioritize any potential causative factors, then start your metadata assessment. Otherwise, you may be misled
A data governance primer, part 2: minding your metadata
The second part of my data governance primer series addresses ways to "mind your metadata." I can just hear the collective groans, and perhaps a stifled yawn. Sorry, but metadata collection is one of those necessary evils that may not be fun, but having it available as a resource to
Eenie, meanie, mindie your MDM sources
Jim Harris (@ocdqblog) explains how to eenie, meanie, mindie your MDM sources.
Making information accuracy BAU
Dylan Jones (@dataqualitypro) shares an example of why data quality should be a business-as-usual practice.
Getting schooled on measurement
Are your data quality metrics making the important measurable instead of making the measurable important?
Where to start with overloading
Dylan Jones (@dataqualitypro) explains how data overloading occurs -- and how to find a better solution.
20 encounters of the information management kind - #2 SAP as the source system of choice
I have encountered quite a few companies that are now anticipating the move of as many of their source systems as possible into SAP. I think this is probably a good decision for quite a few of these organizations. However, in doing so, we must keep or create data management
I fought the law... and the law won
There's an old statistical phenomenon which states that in listings of numeric data, the first digit of about 30% of the numeric values should start with the value of 1 (and ~17% should start with the number 2, 12.5% should start with the number 3, etc...). The phenomenon is known
Getting ready to be a better company
Joyce Norris-Montanari declares this the perfect time to prepare your data for 2013. See what her plans entail.