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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 4

Data Quality and Measurement

“Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry. …The knowledge of them, as established in use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn nothing else, not even to read and write.”

—John Quincy Adams, Report on Weights and Measures (1821)

“It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.”

—Stephen Wright

Purpose

This chapter introduces the concept of data quality dimensions as a means through which data quality can be measured. It presents a definition of ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780123970336