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Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?

TDAN

Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. The reason I ask it is because we seem to think about and manage metadata as somehow different than “normal data” such as business operations […]

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CRM’s Have a Big Data Technical Debt Problem: Here’s How to Fix It

Smart Data Collective

Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms are very reliant on big data. As these platforms become more widely used, some of the data resources they depend on become more stretched. CRM providers need to find ways to address the technical debt problem they are facing through new big data initiatives.

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Why Establishing Data Context is the Key to Creating Competitive Advantage

Ontotext

The age of Big Data inevitably brought computationally intensive problems to the enterprise. Central to today’s efficient business operations are the activities of data capturing and storage, search, sharing, and data analytics. As a result, organizations have spent untold money and time gathering and integrating data.

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Data Intelligence in the Next Normal; Why, Who and When?

erwin

When the pandemic first hit, there was some negative impact on big data and analytics spending. Digital transformation was accelerated, and budgets for spending on big data and analytics increased. Technical metadata is what makes up database schema and table definitions.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets.

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Accelerate HiveQL with Oozie to Spark SQL migration on Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

Many customers run big data workloads such as extract, transform, and load (ETL) on Apache Hive to create a data warehouse on Hadoop. We split the solution into two primary components: generating Spark job metadata and running the SQL on Amazon EMR. The script generates a metadata JSON file for each step.

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The Ultimate Guide to Modern Data Quality Management (DQM) For An Effective Data Quality Control Driven by The Right Metrics

datapine

Reporting being part of an effective DQM, we will also go through some data quality metrics examples you can use to assess your efforts in the matter. But first, let’s define what data quality actually is. What is the definition of data quality? Industry-wide, the positive ROI on quality data is well understood.