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The uniqueness of modern data quality management

Last month I addressed how data quality is perceived by different specialists inside the organisation. This month, I turn the spotlight onto what makes modern data quality management different from traditional approaches. Edwin Walker’s Data Science Central article ‘Difference between modern and traditional data quality’ provides an excellent starting point.

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The evolving role of the data scientist

This month, I am wrapping up my three-part series on evolving data-related roles by focusing on one of the fastest changing and popular roles under discussion in the industry today – the data scientist.

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Conference report back: The practical ways data is transforming healthcare

I was fortunate to have been invited to attend the recent ‘Data & Analytics in Healthcare’ conference in Australia which took place at the end of March. The event was positioned as a ‘deep-dive into the data transformation taking place in healthcare across Australia – and aimed to explore efforts to transform the use of …

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Does prescriptive analytics deserve more attention?

Leveraging data to gain worthwhile insights is fast becoming a natural practice for businesses, as they contend to remain competitively viable in a market where the only constant seems to be change. Data is an asset and those not investing in it are likely to be missing out.

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Big Data – Round 2

If you had told me a decade ago that big data was going to get bigger, I may not have believed you – given that most IT terms are often surrounded by so much hype, and given that growing data types and volumes is, in fact, nothing new. Many people thought this ‘fad’ would not …

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Data Mining

In my previous blog I discussed the concept of data discovery or exploratory data analysis and how organisations are using it more and more today. A related concept is data mining. Now while data discovery is used to analyse the data resource of the organisation in order to understand what data elements there are and …

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Disney World of Data

On the way to the TDWI conference, I recently took my children to Walt Disney World in Orlando. This is truly a world of wonders and they were blown away by the colossal fairytale castles, the life-sized characters, and the vastness of the many parks. They were simply astounded by the size and scope of …

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Implementing Sentiment Analysis

We live in a digital world where our access to information is unprecedented and our ability to shape or mould opinion is as easy as clicking a ‘like’ button. Imagine the  power inherent in that kind of online presence. Now imagine being able to harness that power…

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