Internal communication is a key process in the success of a data quality program at a higher education institution. To build trust in your data you want to be as transparent as possible regarding...
February 20, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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data,
governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
quality,
communication
February 09, 2019
By
Jim Walery
In higher,
education,
data,
governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
planning,
educause,
2019,
responsibilities,
issues,
integration,
privacy,
security
Data dominates on EDUCAUSE’s annual list of the “top 10 IT issues” for higher education institutions as 5 of the issues are about data. Focus this year is about achieving trusted data and putting...
January 30, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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education,
data,
governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
quality,
thoughts,
improve
Data quality is an important piece to data governance and thus important for a higher education institution. During our various webinars and blog posts we have mentioned several thoughts that we...
January 22, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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education,
data,
governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
quality,
content
Data quality is an important component of data governance at a higher education institution and includes people, processes and content. This blog post is about the various content (issues,...
January 16, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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data,
governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
people,
own,
ownership,
it,
department
Who owns the data at higher education institutions? Information Technology (IT) Department or the specific functional department like Admissions, Human Resources, Institutional Research or...
January 02, 2019
By
Jim Walery
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governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
people,
own,
ownership,
it,
department
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
By
Brenda Reeb
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education,
Data Cookbook,
governance,
data,
quality,
issues,
resolution,
ticket
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
By
Jim Walery
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education,
data,
governance,
Data Cookbook,
HE,
idata,
people,
benefits,
onboarding,
new,
employee,
training
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
By
Brenda Reeb
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education,
Data Cookbook,
governance,
data,
quality,
assessment,
measurement
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
By
Aaron Walker
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higher,
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ed,
data,
quality,
lineage
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...