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The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement
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The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement

by David Loshin
November 2010
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
11h 3m
English
Morgan Kaufmann

Overview

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology. It shares the fundamentals for understanding the impacts of poor data quality, and guides practitioners and managers alike in socializing, gaining sponsorship for, planning, and establishing a data quality program.

It demonstrates how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintenance and ongoing metrics. It includes an in-depth look at the use of data quality tools, including business case templates, and tools for analysis, reporting, and strategic planning.

This book is recommended for data management practitioners, including database analysts, information analysts, data administrators, data architects, enterprise architects, data warehouse engineers, and systems analysts, and their managers.

  • Offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology.
  • Shows how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintenance and ongoing metrics.
  • Includes an in-depth look at the use of data quality tools, including business case templates, and tools for analysis, reporting, and strategic planning.
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ISBN: 9780123737175