The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

JULY 18, 2023

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. How do we think about the quality of human ratings, and how do we quantify our understanding is the subject of this post. While human-labeled data is critical to many important applications, it also brings many challenges.

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Anmut

JULY 12, 2021

Unfortunately, traditional approaches to data remediation often focus on technical data quality in isolation from the broader data and business ecosystem. In this blog post, we’ll compare traditional data quality vs data condition — the big picture approach to data improvement we use here at Anmut.

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FineReport

MAY 31, 2023

Financial Performance Dashboard The financial performance dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of key metrics related to your balance sheet, shedding light on the efficiency of your capital expenditure.

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Andrew White

AUGUST 26, 2020

I spoke to a client recently who had this question: “I need help to develop a survey to ask our employees around the company how they regard the various subjective metrics tied to data quality.” I went on: What if the subjective measures all get scored or rated at 100%? ” The question got more curious.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

While this may seem like an odd question, understanding organizational change levers can help uncover opportunities for improving your data supply-chain processes. A key challenge with organizational alignment is communicating across all departments the goals, metrics, and benefits of a process or function.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

At Workiva, they recognized that they are only as good as their data, so they centered their initial DataOps efforts around lowering errors. Hodges commented, “Our first focus was to up our game around data quality and lowering errors in production. Multiple Metrics for Success. At GSK, success is all about adoption.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

Because it is such a new category, both overly narrow and overly broad definitions of DataOps abound. RightData – A self-service suite of applications that help you achieve Data Quality Assurance, Data Integrity Audit and Continuous Data Quality Control with automated validation and reconciliation capabilities.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

First, you must understand the existing challenges of the data team, including the data architecture and end-to-end toolchain. Second, you must establish a definition of “done.” In DataOps, the definition of done includes more than just some working code. Definition of Done. When can you declare it done?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

From rebranding data governance in your organization to demonstrating real business impacts, there’s a lot you can do to bring everyone in your business on board. The role of monitoring, measuring, and metrics So, you’ve got the first step done; you’ve implemented data governance and everyone in your organization is on board.

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DataKitchen

JUNE 24, 2021

GE formed its Digital League to create a data culture. One of the keys for our success was really focusing that effort on what our key business initiatives were and what sorts of metrics mattered most to our customers. So we really prioritized the data that we thought had the biggest chance of delivering success in the end.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reichental describes data governance as the overarching layer that empowers people to manage data well ; as such, it is focused on roles & responsibilities, policies, definitions, metrics, and the lifecycle of the data. In this way, data governance is the business or process side.

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datapine

AUGUST 7, 2019

Exclusive Bonus Content: Your Definitive Guide to SaaS & Dashboards! A SaaS dashboard consolidates and visualizes critical SaaS metrics, covering sales, marketing, finance, consumer support, management, and development to offer an unobstructed panoramic view of the SaaS business and achieve better business performance and profit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Reimagination of business processes sits at the core of digital transformation, and so, by definition, digital transformation challenges the status quo, throwing we-have-always-done-it-this-way sentiment out of the window. Ensuring data quality, privacy, and security is essential.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This distinction assumes a slightly different definition of debugging than is often used in software development. Ideally, AI PMs would steer development teams to incorporate I/O validation into the initial build of the production system, along with the instrumentation needed to monitor model accuracy and other technical performance metrics.

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datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

The balance sheet gives an overview of the main metrics which can easily define trends and the way company assets are being managed. Every serious business uses key performance indicators to measure and evaluate success. Enhanced data quality. It doesn’t stop here. Operational optimization and forecasting.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing? Lack of commitment.

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DataKitchen

MAY 10, 2021

Some will argue that observability is nothing more than testing and monitoring applications using tests, metrics, logs, and other artifacts. That’s a fair point, and it places emphasis on what is most important – what best practices should data teams employ to apply observability to data analytics. It’s not about data quality .

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

When are data products deprecated, and who is accountable for the consequences to their consumers? How do we define “risk” and “value” in the context of data products, and how can we measure this? Whose responsibility is it to justify the existence of a given data product?

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Companies are no longer wondering if data visualizations improve analyses but what is the best way to tell each data-story. 2020 will be the year of data quality management and data discovery: clean and secure data combined with a simple and powerful presentation. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM).

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datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This includes defining the main stakeholders, assessing the situation, defining the goals, and finding the KPIs that will measure your efforts to achieve these goals. A planned BI strategy will point your business in the right direction to meet its goals by making strategic decisions based on real-time data. It’s that simple.

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Alation

AUGUST 17, 2022

“This failure is often the difference between successful implementations and data breaches. If your definitions are bad, so is your governance/risk/security. At the same time, data governance leaders must deliver tangible business value. It comes down to the question: What is the value of your data? ” Parting Words.

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CDW Research Hub

MAY 29, 2019

Start meeting, strategizing, and creating the justification for data governance. Agree on a definition of data governance for organization. Identify where your company currently stands in data governance, while keeping in mind your master data management plan, data quality goals, data stewardship, data lineage, and metadata.

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FineReport

MAY 25, 2023

An HR dashboard functions as an advanced analytics tool that utilizes interactive data visualizations to present crucial HR metrics. Similar to various other business departments, human resources is gradually transforming into a data-centric function. Otherwise, it may become a ‘vanity metric’ in the HR dashboard.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? Let’s start however with some definitions. A number of factors can play into the accuracy of data capture. Timing issues with Data.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. Be data driven?" " Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue! Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!].

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Alation

MARCH 5, 2021

It includes the processes, roles and policies, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information in enabling an organization to achieve its goals.”. Organizations have much to gain from learning about and implementing a data governance framework. Data Governance Roles. Democratizing Data.

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Besides strong technical skills (for instance, use of Hadoop, programming in R and Python , math, statistics), data scientists should also be able to tackle open-ended questions and undirected research in ways that bring measurable business benefits to their organization. See an example: Explore Dashboard.

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datapine

MAY 17, 2021

Studies suggest that 79% of enterprise executives believe that companies that do not leverage big data in the right way will lose their competitive position and could ultimately face extinction. Moreover, 83% of executives have pursued big data projects to gain a competitive edge. Big Data Discovery: Why Is It So Popular?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I am having issues prioritizing 1) recommending fixing on site issues affecting real traffic levels versus 2) correcting significant configuration issues in Analytics measuring current site traffic. Even the worst analytics configuration in the world will most likely allow you to measure cart and checkout abandonment rate.

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datapine

AUGUST 21, 2019

A definitive sales graph example for any growing organization. By exploring these metrics periodically, you’ll be able to drill down into elements including commissions and bonuses, performance consistency, and areas that need improvement, gaining the ability to allocate your support as well as resources more efficiently as a result.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

And types of metadata — or data about data — abound. Some high-level metadata categories in a data catalog include: Behavioral : Records who is using data, and how they are using it. Technical: Shows schema or table definitions. Business: Policies on how to handle different kinds of data appropriately.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The questions reveal a bunch of things we used to worry about, and continue to, like data quality and creating data driven cultures. Yehoshua Coren: Best ways to measure user behavior in a multi-touch, multi-device digital world. What's possible to measure. What's not possible to measure.

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datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

Companies, both big and small, are seeking the finest ways to leverage their data into a competitive advantage. With that in mind, we have prepared a list of the top 19 definitive data analytics and big data books, along with magazines and authentic readers’ reviews upvoted by the Goodreads community. trillion each year.

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 23, 2019

Companies with successful ML projects are often companies that already have an experimental culture in place as well as analytics that enable them to learn from data. Ensure that product managers work on projects that matter to the business and/or are aligned to strategic company metrics. That’s another pattern.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric. This is a key component of active data governance.

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datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

That said, in this article, we will go through both agile analytics and BI starting from basic definitions, and continuing with methodologies, tips, and tricks to help you implement these processes and give you a clear overview of how to use them.

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Jet Global

MAY 28, 2019

The decision will come down to a database vs a data warehouse—but let’s start by explaining what each is and why they are used. All About That (Data)Base. A database is, by definition, ‘any collection of data organized for storage, accessibility, and retrieval.’ Let’s look at why: Data Quality and Consistency.

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