Data Cleansing: How to Get Rid of Bad Data

Bad data costs time and money. The majority of companies know that bad data is an issue, yet have no solid plan in place for eliminating bad data and its effects. In fact, one study concluded that 85 percent of companies know that they are using data that is incorrect or out of date, and as […]

Understanding Data Quality: How Data Quality Problems Arise

Data quality is important to business. That you know. But do you understand what it takes to provide data quality We’ll review how data quality problems can arise. Briefly defined, data quality refers to the ability of a data set to serve whichever need a company hopes to use it for. That need could be sending […]

Solving Data Quality Problems Is Not (Only) Programmers’ Responsibility

Most software is of little use without data to feed into it. When the data is bad, the software performs poorly. Whose job is it to make sure that the data that applications use is of high quality? If you think solving data quality problems is a burden on programmers alone, think again. It may […]