MDM and address data cleansing tips | LinkedIn
I came across this discussion on LinkedIn that I wanted to share. A group member asks about cleansing address data with regard to an MDM solution. Having done this before, I recommend using an address service, Address Doctor, and profiling the data prior to building the cleansing rules. The latter is a topic I speak [...]
Clues to a Great Business Intelligence (Data) Story
I highly recommend reading Cindy Harder’s interesting piece on telling stories with data. Even though she was specifically referencing BI stories, she does elude to doing the same with data analysis and data discovery in the article. I was just thinking about this topic of making data discovery fun last night so this article really [...]
Data Discovery Discussion on LinkedIn
Recently I posed a question in the LinkedIn group for The Data Quality Pro. Dylan Jones, editor of The Data Quality Pro, and I had a nice conversation about data discovery, when to use it and some tools to use to discover data. Join the discussion! I’m curious about how folks here are using data [...]
The Data Explosion: Opportunities and Challenges Abound
It is an interesting time to be in data management. There are more sources of data in so many varied formats than ever before. There are new tools continuously evolving at light speed. There is the promise of opportunity and with it enormous challenges. With regard to the opportunities, one of the most interesting things [...]
Next Hadoop confirms data as a platform | Business Intelligence – InfoWorld
I just finished reading this brief article and was quite interested in the implications of Hadoop maturing into a platform for data driven applications. In the article, Brian Proffitt of IT World, details Hadoop VP Aran Murthy’s Strata presentation which describes how Hadoop is expanding the types of applications that Hadoop’s MapReduce will be able [...]