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Dec 4 2024

Data Insights Ensure Quality Data and Confident Decisions

Every business (large or small) creates and depends upon data. One hundred years ago, businesses looked to leaders and experts to strategize and to create operational goals. Decisions were based on opinion, guesswork, and a complicated mixture of notes and records reflecting historical results that may or may not be relevant to the future. Today, […]

Data Errors in Financial Services: Addressing the Real Cost of Poor Data Quality

Data quality issues continue to plague financial services organizations, resulting in costly fines, operational inefficiencies, and damage to reputations. Even industry leaders like Charles Schwab and Citibank have been severely impacted by poor data management, revealing the urgent need for more effective data quality processes across the sector. Key Examples of Data Quality Failures — […]

Data Crime: Your Phone Isn’t Here

I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications, it can help us learn from the mistakes and prevent future data crimes. The stories can also be helpful if you must explain the importance of data management to someone. The Story Last year, a […]

Data Crime: Arizona Is Not Arkansas

I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications, it can help us learn from mistakes and prevent future data crimes. The stories can also be helpful if you have to explain the importance of data management to someone. The Story After a series […]

Data Cleansing Tools for Big Data: Challenges and Solutions

In the realm of big data, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of data is crucial for making well-informed decisions and actionable insights. Data cleansing, the process of detecting and correcting errors and inconsistencies in datasets, is critical to maintaining data quality. However, the scale and complexity of big data present unique challenges for data cleansing […]

How to Find the Right Tweener for Your Organization

Recently, I attended the CDIO Conference in Boston where I had the pleasure of hearing the two Toms (Tom Redman and Tom Davenport) — gurus of data — introduce the concept of tweeners to the data management world. As I listened to their explanation of a tweener (someone who sits with one foot in data […]

Five “Whys” of Data Cleansing

Data scientists claim that they spend 80% of their time cleansing data and the other 20% of their time complaining about cleansing data. There is clearly something wrong with this picture, but sadly, my own experience can confirm that this seems to be true in practice. In this blog, my goal is to explore why […]

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