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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 7

Initial Data Assessment

“There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.”

—Enrico Fermi, Italian Physicist (1901–1954)

Purpose

This chapter discusses the process of initial data assessment. It describes goals associated with and input to such an assessment and delves into the details of profiling data (column profiling, structure profiling). It also describes deliverables to be produced from an initial assessment. Initial data assessment produces valuable metadata (including specific baseline measurements) about the content, structure, and condition of the data being assessed. One goal of an initial assessment ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780123970336