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October 10, 2014

The Inconvenient Truth about Cloud Security

October 10, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the Enterprise CIO Forum explains the inconvenient truth about cloud security is that we often choose, by default or with intention, convenience over security, especially with public-cloud-based services for mobile devices.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
Enterprise CIO Forum, HP, Data Security, Cloud, Mobile
October 09, 2014

Big Data and Quantified Self-Awareness

October 09, 2014/ Jim Harris

If ignorance is bliss, what is digital abundance? This post posits a contrarian’s view on the quantified self movement, wondering if we are ready for the impact that big data will have on self-awareness.

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Data Quality
Big Data, Philosophy, Data Privacy
October 01, 2014

DQ-BE: Miss Information America

October 01, 2014/ Jim Harris

An example of the challenge of data accuracy and the possible misinformation provided by key performance metrics inspired by the investigative reporting of the HBO satirical news show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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October 01, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 2 Comments
Data Quality, Videos
DQ-BE, Accuracy
September 20, 2014

DQ-BE: Scots give 110% at the Polls

September 20, 2014/ Jim Harris

An example of the importance of performing some basic data quality checks before displaying information, inspired by a graphic about the recent referendum on Scotland’s independence from Great Britain.

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Data Quality
DQ-BE, Data Visualization
September 18, 2014

Making Analytics Elementary with Watson

September 18, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program discusses Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service from IBM that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses.

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Vendors, Sponsored Blog Posts
IBM for Midsize Business, IBM, Analytics
September 09, 2014

Four Myths about IT and Analytics

September 09, 2014/ Jim Harris

This SAS sponsored blog post looks at four myths about the role of an organization’s information technology (IT) group in relation to big data and analytics, and provides recommendations on how IT groups can directly address those myths.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
Big Data, SAS, Analytics
August 29, 2014

Analytics Across the Enterprise

August 29, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program highlights just three of the many key concepts covered in the book Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics.

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Books, Sponsored Blog Posts, Vendors
Big Data, Analytics, IBM for Midsize Business, IBM
August 21, 2014

Big Data and Analytics in Three Verbs

August 21, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program summarizes a study by the IBM Institute for Business Value about how leading midsize businesses are converting big data and analytics into results.

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Sponsored Blog Posts, Vendors
IBM for Midsize Business, IBM, Big Data, Analytics
August 15, 2014

Sturgeon’s Law, Big Data and the New Literacy

August 15, 2014/ Jim Harris

While the era of big data inundates us with huge quantities of data in a wide variety of formats and questionable levels of quality, it may also be making us more literate in more ways.

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August 15, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 2 Comments
Data Quality, Books
Big Data
August 07, 2014

2014 International Data Quality Summit

August 07, 2014/ Jim Harris

During this OCDQ Radio episode, conference co-chairs Joy Medved of IAIDQ and Melissa Hildebrand of ECCMA discuss the 2014 International Data Quality Summit (idqsummit.org) being held October 6-9 in historic Richmond, Virginia.

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Data Quality, OCDQ Radio, Podcasts, Events
Data Governance, IDQSummit
August 05, 2014

How Cultured is Your Organization about Analytics?

August 05, 2014/ Jim Harris

This SAS sponsored blog post explains the key role that corporate culture plays in data analytics and provides five questions that you can use to analyze your organization’s culture about its perspectives on data and analytics.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
SAS, Big Data, Analytics
July 31, 2014

IBM, Apple, and the Next Level of Enterprise Mobility

July 31, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program examines the effects on enterprise mobility caused by the recently announced IBM and Apple partnership.

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Sponsored Blog Posts, Vendors
IBM for Midsize Business, IBM, Apple, Mobile, Cloud
July 29, 2014

Data-driven Illusions

July 29, 2014/ Jim Harris

This post ponders how the focusing illusion, the illusion-of-truth effect, and the illusion-of-quality effect can affect the metrics your organization is relying on to support its data-driven business decisions.

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July 29, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 1 Comment
Data Quality, Books
Analytics, Metrics
July 24, 2014

Busting 3 Big Data Myths for Midsize Businesses

July 24, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program takes on three common misconceptions about big data.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
IBM for Midsize Business, Big Data, Analytics
July 17, 2014

Data isn’t Everything

July 17, 2014/ Jim Harris

This cautionary post, based on a Wired article by Felix Salmon, is a reminder that while becoming data-driven is a laudable goal, be wary of becoming too driven by data.

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July 17, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 1 Comment
Data Quality
Big Data, Analytics
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Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ) is a blog offering a vendor-neutral perspective on data quality and its related disciplines.

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