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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. Data-related decisions, processes, and controls subject to data governance must be auditable.

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A step-by-step guide to setting up a data governance program

IBM Big Data Hub

Technology and data architecture play a crucial role in enabling data governance and achieving these objectives. Focus and prioritize what you’re delivering to the business, determine what you need, deliver and measure results, refine, expand, and deliver against the next priority objectives. Don’t try to do everything at once!

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The quest for high-quality data

O'Reilly on Data

As model building become easier, the problem of high-quality data becomes more evident than ever. Even with advances in building robust models, the reality is that noisy data and incomplete data remain the biggest hurdles to effective end-to-end solutions. Data integration and cleaning.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly on Data

These measures are commonly referred to as guardrail metrics , and they ensure that the product analytics aren’t giving decision-makers the wrong signal about what’s actually important to the business. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ( Goodhart’s Law ). Data Wrangling and Feature Engineering.

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Challenges in producing financial statements

Jet Global

Used primarily in a strategic context by corporate Finance Divisions and Boards of Directors, financial statements are key documents that must be prepared and produced with care. Manage data from diverse systems. Data quality is a central point for producing quality reports that can be used effectively in decision-making.

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Our Favorite Questions

O'Reilly on Data

The safest course of action is also the slowest and most expensive: obtain your training data as part of a collection strategy that includes efforts to obtain the correct representative sample under an explicit license for use as training data. How I use it: I like to ask this as early as possible.

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Human-centered design and data-driven insights elevate precision in government IT modernization

IBM Big Data Hub

How to quantify the impact : Quantify, articulate and measure the expected long-term benefit of a capability to justify the investment. This strategy is not based on a “gut feel” or anecdotal knowledge of a few individuals, but on a well-documented, expansive set of findings, business analysis and calculated projections.