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Practical Data Quality

By : Robert Hawker
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Practical Data Quality

By: Robert Hawker

Overview of this book

Poor data quality can lead to increased costs, hinder revenue growth, compromise decision-making, and introduce risk into organizations. This leads to employees, customers, and suppliers finding every interaction with the organization frustrating. Practical Data Quality provides a comprehensive view of managing data quality within your organization, covering everything from business cases through to embedding improvements that you make to the organization permanently. Each chapter explains a key element of data quality management, from linking strategy and data together to profiling and designing business rules which reveal bad data. The book outlines a suite of tried-and-tested reports that highlight bad data and allow you to develop a plan to make corrections. Throughout the book, you’ll work with real-world examples and utilize re-usable templates to accelerate your initiatives. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of every stage of a data quality initiative and be able to drive tangible results for your organization at pace.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Getting Started
6
Part 2 – Understanding and Monitoring the Data That Matters
10
Part 3 – Improving Data Quality for the Long Term

Part 1 – Getting Started

Data quality initiatives can be difficult to get off the ground. It is not easy to identify clear quantitative benefits up front, and not all stakeholders inherently have an understanding of how damaging poor data quality can be.

In the first four chapters of this book, you will gain an insight into the key concepts that are fundamental to a data quality initiative, such as the roles involved, how the activities fit into a broader data management program, and the end-to-end data quality improvement cycle. You will learn how to create a compelling business case for a data quality initiative, which should lead to the required funding to make meaningful progress. The book will guide you on how to make an impactful start immediately after the business case is approved.

By the end of this part, you will be able to fully articulate what a data quality initiative will comprise, from start to finish, and explain the benefits and costs involved in depth...