{"id":11867,"date":"2007-03-23T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-07-31T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:29:46","slug":"why_data_quality_is_important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/why_data_quality_is_important.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Data Quality is Important!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A true story of data quality problems &#8212; just for fun. (2 mins)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4gj_RdtKCw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More seriously, data quality is a real issue for today&#8217;s organizations. As Andy Bitterer of Gartner puts it, &#8220;there isn&#8217;t an organization on the planet that doesn&#8217;t have a data quality issue&#8221;. But most organizations don&#8217;t know how bad the problem is or where to start. An excellent first step is to invest in a data profiling tool such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com\/pc\/tech\/enterprise-information-management\/software\/data-integrity-steward\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SAP\u00a0Information Steward<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessobjects.com\/products\/dataquality\/data_insight_xi.asp\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data quality &#8212; for the sake of the children!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[160,204,342,579],"class_list":["post-11867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-data-quality","tag-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-35p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}