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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement
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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement

by Laura Sebastian-Coleman
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
13h 56m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 2

Data, People, and Systems

“Still a Union that can be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.”

—General Robert E. Lee (1861)

Some men enjoy the constant strife

Of days with work and worry rife,

But that is not my dream of life:

I think such men are crazy.

—James Weldon Johnson, Lazy (1917)

Purpose

This chapter defines a set of roles related to data and data management. Much of the vocabulary of data quality has its origins in quality control processes in the manufacturing sector. The central metaphor of data as a product describes roles related to data in terms similar to those used in manufacturing: data producer, data consumer, data ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780123970336