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Enterprise Knowledge Management
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Enterprise Knowledge Management

by David Loshin
January 2001
Beginner to intermediate
493 pages
11h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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DATA CLEANSING

It may be surprising that a book on data quality doesn't talk about “cleansing” until nearly the end of the text. Yet, while data cleansing may be the first thing on one's mind when thinking about data quality, cleansing actually encompasses only a small part of the data quality universe. The reason for this is that if we have treated data quality properly, planned from the beginning, then we should not really have to worry about ever cleaning data, since it should already be fit for use by the time the user sees it.

In actuality, though, since we have been largely operating for 40 years without considering data quality a priori, we live in a world where data have been subject to significant entropy and there is a significant ...

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ISBN: 9780124558403