Tag: Data quality
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Poor Data Quality Can Be Embarrassing
Data quality is a hard problem to fix – as an illustration, here are some folks responsible for data quality that couldn’t spell data quality.
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The Top 10 Trends In Analytics 2013
I don’t know about you, but my head is spinning with the phenomenal amount of change going on in the industry: here’s my roundup of the ten top trends in Business Intelligence and Analytics for 3013.
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Facebook is HUGE in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe. Or Maybe Not.
There are more people online in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe than there are living there(?!)
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ESP and Business Analytics
What do Extra-Sensory Perception and Business Analytics have in common? The possibility of bad analysis…
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Another Step for Google into Business Analytics? EIM with Google Refine 2.0
A new version of Google Refine has been announced, a tool designed to cleanse and integrate “messy” data. How does it fit into the corporate notion of enterprise information management?
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Over 100 Free SAP BusinessObjects Web Seminars
Looking for some free training in these difficult economic times? Here’s a long, long list of free web seminars courtesy of the SDN BusinessObjects Web Seminar Series.
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Data Governance? What’s That? (And How Can Companies Fix It?)
Forty-four percent of companies don’t have a formal data governance policy, and 22% of firms without a data policy have no plans to implement one. Here are the key steps to getting data governance and quality going in your organization.
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Data Quality and Bandit Sheep?
A country decided to create a central data warehouse to get a “single view of the criminal” — and ended up with more criminals than population…
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Data Quality and The Art of Despair?
Courtesy of the despair.com site, Dr. E.L. Kersten uses a mailing list debacle to illustrate his Demotivators© organizational storytelling techniques. (more…)
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Business Objects Buys FUZZY! Data Quality
Yet another acquisition: Business Objects purchases FUZZY! Informatik, based near Stuttgart, Germany, terms not disclosed The important: A “challenger” in Gartner’s 2007 data quality magic quadrant Adds European address databases to Business Objects’ existing portfolio and improves European customer base/sales expertise/coverage Vertical solutions for Postal, Financial services, and Telco SOA-enabled, which should make integration easy The…