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Data Quality - Three Essential Links
Jun 24 2009
- Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools (Gartner) -- A good starting point if you want to become familiar with the main vendors in the data quality space.
- Surprising Value of Data Profiling (Kimball - PDF) -- Ralph Kimball provides a concise explanation about the value of data profiling, one of the essential components of a data quality initiative.
- 7 Sources of Poor Data Quality (Melissa DATA) -- William Mcnight identifies seven sources of data quality issues:
- Entry quality
- Process quality
- Identification quality
- Integration quality
- Usage quality
- Aging quality
- Organizational quality
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