Getting schooled on measurement
Are your data quality metrics making the important measurable instead of making the measurable important?
Tag: data quality
Where to start with overloading
Dylan Jones (@dataqualitypro) explains how data overloading occurs -- and how to find a better solution.
Dear Ms. Value! I am missing you! - or the importance of missing values in analytics
Don’t worry! This is not an excerpt from a romantic love letter. The title of this blog post is an allusion to my talk on "Missing Values", at the A2013 conference in June in London. There is not much time for emotions: dealing with missing values in analysis is not
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
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.
3 Tips for more effective data profiling
Blogger Dylan Jones offers 3 tips for more effective data profiling.
The value of zero
Do null sets always spell bad news? @philsimon says no. Find out why.
Hard hitting interview with city CIO reveals value of analytics, coercion
This is a dramatic interpretation of an actual conversation I recently had with the CIO of one of North Carolina’s leading cities. We discussed his experience using data quality, data integration, business intelligence and analytics in the daily operation of the city. I may have taken some...well, a lot of
New local government charge: Do Less with Less
The downturn in the economy beginning in 2008 and continuing even to now has put tremendous pressure on local governments to do “less with less”. In the past when economic downturns caused service level cut backs the cry was to do “more with less”. The idea was to identify ways
Fusion centers & the mail bomb plot
The recent mail bomb attempt on US-bound cargo and commercial airliners is another reminder of the terrorist threat the United States continues to face. While there may be a lull in the news cycles from time to time, the threat is there every day. A key component in detecting and
The Fifth Law of Data Quality
What's the Fifth Law of Data Quality? Jim Harris explains.