The TDWI Boston Chapter had a great meeting yesterday at the MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA. The Club is on the 6th floor overlooking the Charles River and Boston. It was a beautiful, September afternoon with sail boats and crews in the river and joggers along the Esplanade.
The meeting itself was exceptional, with three distinguished guests discussing data quality.
– "Raising the Bar on Corporate Information Quality: $1 Million at a Time" by Dr. Richard Wang, Chief Data Quality Officer, U.S. Army
– “Framework for the Analysis of the Adaptability, Extensibility and Scalability of Semantic Information Integration to Improve Data Quality in Data Warehouses” by Dr. Stuart Madnick, Professor Sloan School of Management and Professor M.I.T.
“Breaking Rules: How do Information Worriers Solve Problems” by Dr. Yang Lee, Associate Professor Northeastern University
As you can tell by the titles, the presentations were not for the uninitiated to the problems of data quality in business intelligence, data integration and data warehousing. As you might guess, we did not get any vendor pitches, but rather academic, government and corporate perspectives.
The key takeaways from the presentations:
It was certainly worth one's time to get out from work and hear the speakers' opinions and work in this area. The only drawbacks to the afternoon was Cambridge traffic, construction and parking.
Full Disclosure: I am a TDWI Boston Chapter officer
1 Comment
Rick,
I really liked the quote “data quality is primarily about context not accuracy…”
I added to my DQ-Tips series on my blog:
DQ-Tip: “Data quality is primarily about context not accuracy…”
Thanks and Best Regards…
Jim