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Jan 24, 2012, 10:14 am
Total Data Management
The data management world is buzzing about big data. Many are the number of blog posts articles and white papers covering this new area. Just about every data management vendor is scrambling to build tools to meet the needs of big data.
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Aug 31, 2011, 5:09 am
Part 5 of 5: People Issues
In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. Companies rely on data to make significant decisions that can affect customer service, regulatory compliance, supply chai... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2011, 5:09 am
Part 4 of 5: Data Flow
In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. In part four, we examine some of the areas involving the pervasive nature of data and how it flows to and fro within an organ... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 5:09 am
Part 3 of 5: Secret Code and Corporate Evolution
In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. In part three, we examine secret code and corporate evolution as two of the root causes for data qu... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2011, 5:09 am
Part 2 of 5: Renegades and Pirates
In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. In part two, we examine IT renegades and corporate pirates as two of the root causes for data quality problems.
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Aug 24, 2011, 5:01 am
Part 1 of 5: The Basics
We all know data quality problems when we see them. They can undermine your organization’s ability to work efficiently, comply with government regulations and make revenue. The specific technical problems include missing data, misfielded attributes, duplicate record... Comment - Like
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Jun 13, 2011, 2:50 pm
There is a lot of buzz today about big data and companies stepping up to meet the challenge of ever increasing data volumes. In the center of it all, are Hadoop and the Cloud. Hadoop can intelligently manage the distribution of processing and your files. It manages the infrastructure needed to bre... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2011, 6:33 pm
I just wrote a paper called the ‘Butterfly Effect’ of poor data quality for Talend.
The term butterfly effect refers to the way a minor event – like the movement of a butterfly’s wing – can have a major impact on a complex system – like the weather. The movement of the butterfly wi... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2011, 2:38 pm
This year I’m planning to attend the MIT IQ symposium again. I’m also one of the vice chairs of the event. The symposium is a July event in Boston that is a discussion and exchange of ideas about data quality between practitioners and academicians.
I return to this conference and partic... Comment - Like
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Apr 29, 2011, 10:47 am
My latest video on the Talend Channel about data quality and open source.
This was filmed in the Paris office in January. I can get excited in any time zone when it comes to data quality.Covering the world of data integration, data governance, and data quality from the perspective of an indus... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 4:28 pm
Most data governance practitioners agree that a data quality scorecard is an important tool in any data governance program. It provides comprehensive information about quality of data in a database, and perhaps even more importantly, allows business users and technical users to collaborate on the qu... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2011, 9:40 pm
With the tough economy people are still cutting back on corporate spending. There is a sense of urgency to just get things done, and sometimes that can lead to hand-coding your own data integration, data quality or MDM functions. When you begin to develop your plan and strategies for data manageme... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2011, 4:11 pm
Q. Some people would say that data quality technology is mature and that the topic is sort of stale. Are there major changes happening in the data quality world today?
A. Probably the biggest over-arching change we see today is that the distinction between those managing data from the business... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2010, 5:18 pm
This time of year everyone makes prognostications about the state of the data management field for 2011. I thought I’d take my turn by offering my predictions for the coming year.
Data will become more open
In the old days good quality reference data was an asset kept in the corporate lockbo... Comment - Like
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Nov 30, 2010, 6:57 pm
I’d like to get a little technical on this post. I try to keep my posts business-friendly, but sometimes there's importance in detail. If none of this post makes any sense to you, I wrote a sort of primer on how matching works in many data quality tools, which you can get here.
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Nov 16, 2010, 1:31 pm
I read a recent analyst report on the data quality market and “enterprise-class” data quality solutions. Per usual, the open source solutions were mentioned at a passing while the data quality solutions of the past were given high marks. Some of the solutions picked in the top originated from da... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2010, 8:11 pm
Ripped from recent headlines, we see how even a .2% failure can have a big impact.
WASHINGTON (AP) ― More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report.
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Aug 28, 2010, 9:26 am
In this YouTube tutorial for Talend, I walk through some techniques for profiling ERP, SCM and materials master data using Talend Open Profiler. In addition to basic profiling, the correlation analysis feature can be used to identify relationships between part numbers and descriptions.
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Aug 16, 2010, 12:05 pm
I have reached my 100th post milestone. I hope you won't mind if I get a little introspective here and tell you a little about my social media journey over these past three years.
How did I get started? One day back in 2007, I disagreed with Vince McBurney’s post (topic unimportant now).... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2010, 3:29 pm
Years ago, I worked for a large company that spent time and effort on change management. It has been popular with corporations that plan significant changes as they grow or down-size. Companies, particularly high-tech companies, use change management to be more agile and respond to rapid changes in ... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2010, 1:48 pm
Last week I sat down with Dylan Jones of DataQualityPro.com to talk about data governance. Here is the replay. We discussed a range of topics including organic governance approaches, challenges of defining data governance, industry adoption trends, policy enforcement vs legislature and much more.
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Jul 30, 2010, 11:27 am
I’ve been busy this summer working on a white paper on record matching, the result of which is available on the Talend web site here.
The white paper is sort of a primer containing elementary principles of record matching, As the description says, it outlines the basic theories and strateg... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2010, 11:21 am
From time to time, people read my blog or book and contact me to chat about data governance and data quality. I welcome it. It’s great to talk to people in the industry and hear their concerns.
Occasionally, I see things in my in-box that bother me, though. Here is one item that I’ll ad... Comment - Like
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Jul 21, 2010, 8:00 am
My children expressed interest in opening up a lemonade stand this weekend. I’m not sure if it’s done worldwide, but here in America every kid between the age of five and twelve tries their hand at earning extra money during the summer months. Most parents in America indulge this because t... Comment - Like
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Jul 9, 2010, 10:40 pm
I found a very interesting paper on record matching in my research for my own upcoming white paper. The paper was written by Chief of the National Office of Vital Statistics for the U. S. Public Health Service. The paper describes in almost poetic fashion of a person’s “book of life”. It des... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2010, 7:19 pm
If you’re reading this, you’re most likely in the business of data management. In many companies, particularly large ones, the folks who manage data don’t much talk to the executives. But every so often, there is that luncheon, a chance meeting in the elevator, or even a break from a larger me... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2010, 10:38 am
Here I am giving a demo on Talend Open Profiler. Demo and commentary included.
You can download Talend Open Profiler here.Covering the world of data integration, data governance, and data quality from the perspective of an industry insider. Comment - Like
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May 4, 2010, 8:27 pm
I read with interest the story about the National ID card. Although I don’t like to link myself to one political party or another, I applaud the effort of trying to get a system in place for national ID. I like efficient data.
However, I have my doubts that a group of Senators can really u... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 12:01 pm
I recently delivered a webinar on the Secrets of Affordable Data Governance. In the webinar, I promised to deliver links for lowering the costs of data management. Here are those links:
Talend Open Source - Download free data profiling, data integration and MDM software.
US Census - Download ... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2010, 11:24 am
If you believe like I do that proper data management can change the world, then you have to start wondering if it’s time for all us data quality professionals to stand up and start changing it.
It’s clear that everyone organization, no matter what the size or influence, can benefit from pr... Comment - Like
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Feb 22, 2010, 4:26 pm
Reference data can be used in a huge number of data quality and data enrichment processes. The simplest example is a table that contains cities and their associated postal codes – you can use an ETL process to make sure that all your customer records that contain 02026 for a postal code always r... Comment - Like
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Feb 16, 2010, 3:34 pm
One of my first jobs was that of assistant cook at a summer camp. (In this case, the term ‘cook’ was loosely applied meaning to scrub pots and pans for the head cook.) It was there I learned that most cooks have ingredients that they tend to use more often. The cook at Camp Marlin tended to ... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2010, 5:50 pm
Every organization, including your data governance team has a purpose and a mission. It can be very effective to communicate your mission in a mission statement to show the company that you mean business. When you show the value of your team, it can change your relationship with management for the... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2010, 5:30 pm
Is data quality a luxury that only large companies should be able to afford? Of course the answer is no. Your company should be paying attention to data quality no matter if you are a Fortune 1000 or a startup. Like a toothache, poor data quality will never get better on its own.
As a compan... Comment - Like
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Dec 21, 2009, 12:01 am
In the famous book “The Transparent Society”, we are asked to consider some of the privacy ills we will be facing as technology improves and our society gains access to more data sets. The book was groundbreaking when it was written in 1999. It imagines the emergence of groups who are more power... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 6:15 pm
You’ve created a wonderful proposal for a comprehensive data governance program. You’ve brought it up to management, but the chiefs tell you there’s just no budget for data governance. Now what?
The best thing you can do it to keep at it. It often takes time to win the hearts and minds o... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 5:00 pm
A couple of weeks ago, I book-swapped with author Donna Burbank. She has a new book entitled Data Modeling for Business. Donna, an experienced consultant by trade, has teamed up with Steve Hoberman, a previous published author and technologist and Chris Bradley, also a consultant, for an excellent ... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 6:00 pm
A few things in life have the same appearance, but the details can vary widely. For example, planets and stars look the same in the night sky, but traveling to them and surviving once you get there are two completely different problems. It’s only when you get close to your destination that you c... Comment - Like
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