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Jim HarrisApril 4, 2016 3

Which comes first, data quality or data analytics?

While it’s obvious that chickens hatch from eggs that were laid by other chickens, what’s less obvious is which came first – the chicken or the egg? This classic conundrum has long puzzled non-scientists and scientists alike. There are almost as many people on Team Chicken as there are on Team

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Joyce Norris-MontanariMarch 30, 2016 0

Health insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical perspectives on data quality – Part 1

Does it upset you when you log onto your healthcare insurance portal and find that they spelled your name wrong, have your dependents listed incorrectly or your address is not correct? Well, it's definitely not a warm fuzzy feeling for me! After working for many years in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and

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Dylan JonesMarch 28, 2016 1

"Real MDM" and the quest for long-term data quality improvement

I'm frequently asked: "What causes poor data quality?" There are, of course, many culprits: Lack of a data culture. Poor management attitude. Insufficient training. Incorrect reward structure. But there is one reason that is common to all organizations – poor data architecture.

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Jim HarrisMarch 23, 2016 0

Self-service data prep versus data quality

Many data quality issues are a result of the distance separating data from the real-world object or entity it attempts to describe. This is the case with master data, which describes parties, products, locations and assets. Customer (one of the roles within party) master data quality issues are rife with examples, especially

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Todd WrightMarch 22, 2016 0

SAS Event Stream Processing with Hortonworks – The future is now

Even the most casual observers of the IT space over the last few years are bound to have heard about Hadoop and the advantages it brings. Consider its ability to store data in virtually any format and process it in parallel. Hadoop distributors, such as Hortonworks, can also provide enterprise-level

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Phil SimonMarch 21, 2016 2

Five data quality lessons from Amazon

@philsimon on what we can learn about data quality from Jeff Bezos's behemoth.

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David LoshinMarch 16, 2016 3

Big data, data standards and cross-platform integration

At a recent TDWI conference, I was strolling the exhibition floor when I noticed an interesting phenomenon. A surprising percentage of the exhibiting vendors fell into one of two product categories. One group was selling cloud-based or hosted data warehousing and/or analytics services. The other group was selling data integration products. Of

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Joyce Norris-MontanariMarch 14, 2016 0

Should easy access to data change the data strategy?

In the past, we've always protected our data to create an integrated environment for reporting and analytics. And we tried to protect people from themselves when using and accessing data, which sometimes could have been considered a bottleneck in the process. We instituted guidelines and procedures around: Certification of the data

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Dylan JonesMarch 9, 2016 3

Data governance is nothing without data quality

When you spend long enough writing and working in any industry, you inevitably see trends emerge and reach varying levels of maturity. Data governance is one such trend, as you can see from the following Google Trends chart:

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