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Overcoming a World Awash in Dirty Data

Like an invisible virus, “dirty data” plagues today’s business world. That is to say, inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent data is proliferating in today’s “big data”-centric world. Working with dirty data costs companies millions of dollars annually. It decreases the efficiency and effectiveness of departments spanning the enterprise and curtails efforts to grow and scale. It […]

Data Quality Best Practices to Discover the Hidden Potential of Dirty Data in Health Care

Dirty data – data that is inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent – costs the U.S. $3.1 trillion per year, according to IBM. Along with the staggering cost, it prevents health care stakeholders from realizing the enormous potential value that they could be realizing from downstream analytics, including population health management, value-based care, and digital health. Health plans will […]

The 12 Days of Data Management

Click to learn more about author Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.”  The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so much […]

Talend Unveils Industry’s First Cloud-Native, Apache Beam-Powered Streaming Data Application

by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Talend, a global leader in cloud and big data integration solutions, unveiled Talend Data Streams, a free, Amazon marketplace application that simplifies and accelerates ingestion of massive volumes and wide varieties of real-time data. Released today at Talend Connect US, the company’s annual customer and partner conference […]

Data Governance and Information Governance: Contemporary Solutions

While Data Governance is usually considered a mature discipline, according to Robert Smallwood, the Managing Director at the Institute for Information Governance, during his recent DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World 2016 Conference presentation Information Governance (IG) is a more recent development. The Information Governance Initiative was first formed in February of 2014. It was originally made […]