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Has lockdown exposed your data weaknesses?

Staff can often be very resourceful in making poor systems and processes work and to overcome data problems within an organisation. If people are based in a single office then they can call out questions like: “Do you remember who

Julian Schwarzenbach 29th May 202029th July 2020 Blog No Comments Read more

ISO 8000-61 – the data quality management standard

A few years ago we did a series of blog posts on ISO 8000-150 which have been perennially popular. Well, since those posts were created ISO 8000-61 has been published which provides a richer and more comprehensive approach to data

Julian Schwarzenbach 5th February 202029th January 2021 Blog No Comments Read more

Data quality is free

You may wonder why you should bother improving your data quality or what the benefits of this activity may be. You may wonder how to secure suitable resources and funding to deliver improvements to data quality. Read on to discover

Julian Schwarzenbach 16th August 20193rd February 2021 Blog No Comments Read more

Human data errors

Data quality problems all, at their root, involve some form of human error. Whilst this is easy to say, it is perhaps harder to identify and resolve the causes of these human errors. In this blog post, I will explore

Julian Schwarzenbach 12th June 201914th June 2019 Blog No Comments Read more

Continuity – the new data quality dimension

When talking about data quality, it is usual to consider different aspects or ‘dimensions’ of data quality – validity, completeness, uniqueness, consistency, timeliness and accuracy. These six dimensions were agreed as the most relevant and representative of data quality as

Julian Schwarzenbach 21st May 2019 Blog 4 Comments Read more

Garbage In, Gospel Out

Most people should be familiar with the old adage “Garbage In, Garbage Out” intended to remind people that if your input data is poor, then any outputs will also be poor. There is a variant of this that cropped up

Julian Schwarzenbach 12th October 2018 Blog No Comments Read more

Does your data trust you?

A colleague of mine recently posted a very interesting blog titled Do you trust your data? This led me to think about the issues from the perspective of the data i.e. if I am a data set can I trust

Ian Rush 12th September 201814th November 2018 Blog 3 Comments Read more

Do you trust your data?

Those days when you need to make an important decision can be trying at the best of times. The old saying “Garbage In, Garbage Out” is never more relevant (particularly if an AI tool is making automated decisions).

Zoe Leadbeater 3rd September 201821st November 2018 Blog No Comments Read more

Does your organisation have a Victorian attitude to data quality?

In the Victorian era, accident rates were far higher than today yet at the time were considered regrettable, but just the way things are. How about modern attitudes to data?

Julian Schwarzenbach 15th August 2018 Blog No Comments Read more

Do you need a data MOT?

How you manage your data quality can have quite an impact on your organisation’s results. If you think about taking your car for an MOT*, you’re taking it to be assessed against the criteria set out by the government to

Zoe Leadbeater 9th May 2018 Blog No Comments Read more
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