What’s all the fuss about Big Data?

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According to data analytics company SAS, big data is a term used to describe large volumes of data, whether structured or unstructured, that businesses deal with on a daily basis. Big data can be broken down into the three Vs:

  • Volume: businesses collect data from various sources and with increasing use of the internet and social platforms, there is more data available than ever.
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Better Marketing Starts with Better Data

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Improve Data Quality for More Accurate
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Organizations
are under more pressure than ever to gain accurate contact data for their
customers. When your consumer base ranges from Los Angeles to Tokyo, it can be
challenging. Poor data quality has a critical impact on both the financial
stability as well as the operations of a business. Verifying and maintaining
vast quantities of accurate contact data is often inefficient and falls short
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Big Data May Turn Data Quality on Its Head

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By Elliot King

Big data has emerged as a big issue for organizations both large and small. The idea of being able to capture and assess huge amounts of data, as well as use a vast new array of data types including unstructured and semi-structured data, has led to a kind of religious fervor. Analyzing big data will undoubtedly lead to better outcomes–or so the thinking goes.
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Mistakes Are All Around Us

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By Elliot King

Mistakes happen. No matter how effective your data quality program is; no matter how well trained your personnel are; no matter how aware you are of the high cost of low data quality, data errors will creep into your databases. The reason is simple. Before information winds up in a database, it passes through a series of steps involving both human interaction and computation from data acquisition to archival storage.
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Standardizing Your Approach to Monitoring the Quality of Data

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By David Loshin

In my last post, I suggested three techniques for maturing your organizational approach to data quality management. The first recommendation was defining processes for evaluating errors when they are identified. These types of processes actually involve a few key techniques:

1) An approach to specifying data validity rules that can be
used to determine whether a data instance or record has an error.

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