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January 16, 2019
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January 10, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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This blog post discusses the perception of data governance. It sounds difficult and controlling. Maybe it should be called data guidance instead. Data governance should help the staff at the...
January 02, 2019
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Data quality is a key component of data governance. This post lists impacts of poor quality data and identifies sources of poor quality data. If you can’t get traction to establish a formal program,...
December 13, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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In an earlier post we covered components of a data quality program, data quality rules and data quality assessments. The last post in this Data Quality series recommends a process to address...
December 05, 2018
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Jim Walery
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Data governance is an institutional priority and it is critical to give all employees the resources and training to achieve this priority as soon as they walk in the door.
The on-boarding or...
November 29, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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In an earlier post we covered components of a data quality program and data quality rules. Today I want to discuss data quality assessment or measurement.
November 14, 2018
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Aaron Walker
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The profusion of data sources and systems in higher education introduces plenty of challenges (headaches?) for data managers and consumers. One of the most difficult challenges is also one of the...
November 07, 2018
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Jim Walery
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So, you don’t trust your data. Well, you need to do something about it. You need to create a culture for having trusted data and have effective data governance in place. Don’t blame your data....
October 24, 2018
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Aaron Walker
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Of our clients who have embarked on an analytics program, many of them have seen the same issues emerge that came up when they introduced Business Intelligence (BI) tools, as well as historically...
In an earlier post I described the components of a data quality program. Today I want to discuss one of those components - data quality rules and a catalog to organize the rules. A data quality...