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Practical Data Quality

By : Robert Hawker
Book Image

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

Continuing the data quality journey

Chapter 2 showed that data quality work usually takes place through multiple iterations of a cyclical process. We have just described the final step in that process – the transition to business as usual.

The next step is to return to the beginning again (apologies to anyone who thought that they were finished!) and start to scope further data quality work in a new initiative.

This section describes how this can be approached.

Roadmap of data quality initiatives

A single data quality initiative (as described in Chapters 3 to 8) will include a range of different people – from project managers to data quality rule developers. These initiative-based resources will typically leave the organization or return to their original roles when the initiative ends. If there is only ever a need for one initiative, then this is fine, but if it is expected that many initiatives will be needed, then this adds additional cost to the next initiative...