New Thinking with New BLOG: Why Data Quality (Why DQ)?

For a number of years DQMatters, Dan Myers, has published the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality blog which has provided many examples of real-world data quality and how to classify issues using the dimensions of data quality- specifically the Conformed Dimensions as outlined by DQMatters. This has been immensely helpful to business analysts, data management professions (various domains included), but somehow a disconnect still exists. Many people still don’t understand why data, and in this context why data quality, is so very important to their lives. In order to help draw the same helpful examples, illustrations, and provide operational advice to people in a broader context, DQMatters is starting a new blog. The title will be Why DQ, but of course the goal is much loftier.

The goal of this new blog is to help people develop a new perspective of data and its impact on our lives. We will primarily focus on the clear relationship between people, data, data quality and the organizational roles that society has created in order to help us benefit from data. DQMatters has a special appreciation for the true potential of the use of data to make our lives better. We spend help organizations cross the divide from not just becoming data- centric, but executing on that through clear understanding of data quality and how it limits or magnifies the value of data and the underlying change seen in our lives.

We’ll expand on this more over the coming weeks, but as you can see in the diagram below, if desired change in our lives is made possible by data, then higher quality data (that’s a loaded term by the way), leads us to better business outcomes and increased life improvement.

Stay tuned…