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Understanding the causes and risks of data waste

In recent years, there has been a significant focus on individuals and organisations to reduce waste in support of global climate change and environmentally conscious efforts. In my blog post this month, I turn the spotlight on a different sort of waste. This is something which every business around the world struggles with – data …

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A deep dive into responsible data and analytics

Having done some work in permaculture and sustainability, I was very interested in this paper that I recently came across entitled ‘Responsible Data and Analytics’. We know that data and analytics can do a lot to enrich our lives, increase productivity, even assist in improving health. But if done incorrectly, or deployed irresponsibly, it can …

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It all comes back to Data Quality – part 2

In picking up the discussion from where I left off last month, before I introduce the fifth to seventh Cs of the 7 Cs of Data Quality by Melissa, I felt it important to emphasise a very pertinent point to the overall success of data to a business’s growth strategy.

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Big Data Privacy

In my previous blog I discussed Big Data Security, which is about the protection of data in storage and in transit. In this post I focus on privacy, which refers to protecting the rights of the individuals or organisations represented by the data. Privacy breaches of any sensitive data can cost an organisation dearly, both …

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Big Data Security

Because Big Data is really about volumes of new information moving into, within and through the organisation, two key factors that must be considered are security and privacy. Security is about the protection of the data in storage and in transit, whereas privacy refers to protecting the rights of the “subjects” represented by the data. …

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