Data Management

Jim HarrisApril 11, 2016 0

Pushing data quality beyond boundaries

Throughout my long career of building and implementing data quality processes, I've consistently been told that data quality could not be implemented within data sources, because doing so would disrupt production systems. Therefore, source data was often copied to a central location – a staging area – where it was cleansed, transformed, unduplicated, restructured

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Data Management

Matthew MagneApril 7, 2016 0

Can SAS Data Management get you to soccer on time?

A soccer fairy tale Imagine it's Soccer Saturday. You've got 10 kids and 10 loads of laundry – along with buried soccer jerseys – that you need to clean before the games begin. Oh, and you have two hours to do this. Fear not! You are a member of an advanced HOA

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Data Management

Joyce Norris-MontanariApril 6, 2016 0

Health insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical perspective on data quality – Part 2

As I explained in Part 1 of this series, spelling my name wrong does bother me! However, life changes quickly at health insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. That said, taking unintegrated or cleansed data and propagating it to Hadoop may only help one issue. That would be the issue of getting the data

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Data Management

Jim HarrisApril 4, 2016 0

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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Data Management

Phil SimonApril 1, 2016 0

Data quality and cloud computing: What are the risks?

.@philsimon on the specific risks to data quality posed by cloud computing.

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Data Management

Caroline HermonMarch 31, 2016 0

Treading the murky legal waters of big data

While the growth of big data is an issue that preoccupies both the public and private sector, it’s also high on the UK government’s legislative agenda. All eyes are currently on the authorities, as we wait with bated breath to see what’s next in the quest to manage data escalation.

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Data Management

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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Data Management

Dylan JonesMarch 28, 2016 0

"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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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Data Management

Marcelo SukniMarch 28, 2016 0

El futuro de la analítica está en manos del científico de datos

Analistas y expertos en Big Data de todo el mundo coinciden en la importancia de potenciar el capital humano y desarrollar profesionales más preparados. Cada persona tiene aptitudes para realizar diversas actividades como natación, equitación, tenis o, incluso, destacar en el ámbito profesional ofreciendo mejores resultados en tareas determinadas. Ahora

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Data Management

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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Data Management | Data Visualization

Bill DavisMarch 23, 2016 0

Your Hadoop data visualization questions answered here and at #StrataHadoop

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then visualizing data in Hadoop would be like a billion. Over the last few years, organizations have rushed to leverage the low-cost distributed computing and storage power of Hadoop clusters. As Hadoop environments mature and move away from their initial focus of

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Data Management

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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Data Management

Phil SimonMarch 21, 2016 0

Five data quality lessons from Amazon

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

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Data Management

Bill DavisMarch 18, 2016 0

MapReduce vs. Apache Spark vs. SQL: Your questions answered here and at #StrataHadoop

As the big data era continues to evolve, Hadoop remains the workhorse for distributed computing environments. MapReduce has been the dominant workload in Hadoop, but Spark -- due to its superior in-memory performance -- is seeing rapid acceptance and growing adoption. As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, users need the flexibility to use either traditional MapReduce

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Data Management

David LoshinMarch 16, 2016 0

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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Data Management | Internet of Things

Bill DavisMarch 15, 2016 0

Your streaming analytics questions answered here and at #StrataHadoop

Streaming analytics is a red hot topic in many industries. As the Internet of Things continues to grow, the ability to process and analyze data from new sources like sensors, mobile phones, and web clickstreams will set you apart from your competition. Event stream processing is a popular way to

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Data Management

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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Data Management

Dylan JonesMarch 9, 2016 0

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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Data Management | Programming Tips

Nicolas RobertMarch 7, 2016 0

Data Governance Series: Share DataFlux Data Quality profiling metrics in SAS Visual Analytics (Part 2)

In this post, I continue the journey of getting data profiling results into SAS Visual Analytics. In my first blog I described the process of collecting DataFlux Data Quality profiling metrics to load a datamart. Now we load this datamart into memory (LASR) and then plug a VA report on

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Data Management

Phil SimonMarch 7, 2016 0

Top 5 data quality mistakes organizations make

.@philsimon lists the gravest data-quality errors.

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David LoshinMarch 3, 2016 0

Big data quality with continuations

I've been doing some investigation into Apache Spark, and I'm particularly intrigued by the concept of the resilient distributed dataset, or RDD. According to the Apache Spark website, an RDD is “a fault-tolerant collection of elements that can be operated on in parallel.” Two aspects of the RDD are particularly

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Analytics | Data Management

Sandra HernandezMarch 2, 2016 0

¿Cómo gestionar sus datos para alcanzar sus objetivos de negocio?

¿Cómo las empresas pueden gestionar adecuadamente su gran volumen de información? ¿Están los datos de su organización listos para convertirse en la clave para alcanzar sus objetivos empresariales? ¿Cómo tomar las mejores decisiones a partir de la analítica? No cabe duda, en un mundo cada vez más conectado el Big

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Jim HarrisFebruary 29, 2016 0

How big of a deal is big data quality?

Data quality has always been relative and variable, meaning data quality is relative to a particular business use and can vary by user. Data of sufficient quality for one business use may be insufficient for other business uses, and data considered good by one user may be considered bad by others.

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Dylan JonesFebruary 23, 2016 0

Scaling a vision for data quality

I recently presented a webinar (via the IAIDQ) on the topic of 7 Habits of Effective Data Quality Leaders. To prepare, I looked back at the many interviews of leading data quality practitioners I had undertaken over the years. A common trait among all these interviews stood out – they

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Data Management

Alan CudneyFebruary 19, 2016 0

Here comes MACRA: Analytics can help you measure and manage

Medicare payment changes are coming. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the intention of increasing the proportion of payments to providers based on outcomes and changes in health status, as opposed to delivery of services. At the January 11th, 2016 J.P. Morgan Annual Health Care Conference,

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Data Management

Michael HerrmannFebruary 19, 2016 0

Banken-Daten-Management: Mehr Schein als Sein?

Aktuell sprechen wir mit vielen Banken über das Management ihrer Daten. Historisch schien die Bereitstellung von Information hinlänglich gelöst: Die IT-Abteilungen stellten diverse Mart-Daten & Analyse-Tools bereit. Punkt. Banken-Daten-Management: Mehr Schein als Sein?

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Data Management

Phil SimonFebruary 18, 2016 0

Who's in charge of data quality?

.@philsimon chimes in on this pivotal question.

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Joyce Norris-MontanariFebruary 17, 2016 0

Risks to consider when developing a data strategy – Part 2

As I explained in Part 1 of this series, creating a strategy for the data in an organization is not a straightforward task. Two of the most important issues you'll want to address in your data strategy are data quality and big data. Data quality There can be no data that is

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenFebruary 17, 2016 0

DataFlux Data Management Server 2.7: REST APIs

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style for designing web services that access a system's resources using HTTP methods. With the release of DataFlux Data Management 2.7 earlier this year, three new REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are now available: Data Management Server Batch Jobs Data Management Server Real-time

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Data Management

Carlos LaraFebruary 12, 2016 0

Finding the balance between short- and long-term big data storage

Back before storage became so affordable, cost was the primary factor in determining what data an IT department would store. As George Dyson (author and historian of technology) says, “Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information became less than the cost of making the decision to

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