Data Governance Brings Harmony

Data has long been identified as one of the most valuable assets an organization possesses. How essential, then, is it for enterprises to adopt a strategy and framework that will manage their data? For some professional and industry leaders, it is more than just managing data. You need to take advantage of the potential your data…

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Seeking Data Quality

Data quality is a concern everywhere and in every industry. The Economic Times brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Checks on data collection, improved sample size likely.” In New Delhi, a recent leak of the draft Household Consumer Expenditure report showed a decline in spending in rural India in 2017-18 and…

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Ensuring Data Quality

Information management consultants are identifying the importance of aligning business and IT drivers for a holistic architectural approach to ensuring strong data quality. Tech Target brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Align business and IT drivers through data quality best practices.“ Data quality efforts are often needed while integrating disparate applications…

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Artificial Intelligence in the Environment

We have often discussed the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), but what about the ecology of AI? How does it impact our environment? Tech HQ brought this topic to us in their article, “How is data-hungry AI affecting the environment?” With much focus and discussion around climate change, energy consumption, and greenhouse gasses, it is…

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The Importance of Data Strategy

Data strategy describes a set of decisions that together chart a high-level course of action to achieve high-level goals. This includes business plans to use information for a competitive advantage as well as support enterprise goals. It has never been more important that an organization have one. Business 2 Community brought this interesting information to our attention…

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Mitigating the AI Bias

Machine learning bias, also known as algorithm bias or artificial intelligence (AI) bias, occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systematically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process. This interesting topic came to us from Tech Target in their article, “Eliminating bias in AI is no easy feat, but fixes do exist.” AI…

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Data Consistency is Key to Data Quality

The explosion of data that comes with artificial intelligence (AI) has some concerned about the security and quality of that data. This interesting topic came to us from Barron’s in their article, “2020: Get Your Data House in Order.” This is an unanticipated consequence of AI and data analytics popularity. Even though there is much…

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Disney is Looking for a Data Steward

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, information services, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…

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Finding the Quality

Data quality is a constant challenge for any data governance strategic plan. Often, a data governance team is built to ensure data will be handled effectively and to monitor data quality. This interesting topic came to us from Information Management in their article, “Data quality issues – Who is responsible for resolving them?” The quality of…

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The Foundation of Digital

Digital transformation is a foundational change in how an organization delivers value to its customers. Digital transformations are commonplace at most companies, but they still have work to do to fully realize their digital operations and potential. Digital Insurance brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Visibility, governance and compliance among top challenges with…

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