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eLearningCurveData ProfilingOne of the most common and important activities in data management, data profiling is the process of analyzing actual data and understanding its true structure and meaning. Data profiling is the first critical step in many IT projects, and is truly the key ingredient to successful data quality management. Tune in to this episode of The Learning Curve to hear data quality management guru Arkady Maydanchik cover the what, why, when, and how of data profiling. Data profiling techniques of varying levels of complexity will be discussed, as will topics related to the gathering, analysis, organization and performance of data...2009-09-1127 mineLearningCurveEnsuring Data Quality in Data IntegrationWith the advancing of time and cumulative growth of corporate databases comes an endless process of upgrading and redesigning the programs responsible for data integration, as well as the databases themselves. The typical result of these dynamics is that information systems get better, while data quality deteriorates. Without a comprehensive data quality-monitoring program, bad data spread like viruses. In this episode of The Learning Curve, data quality guru Arkady Maydanchik discusses various practices that can be put in place to mitigate the problem and maintain high data quality through data integration. Webcast duration is 20 minutes.2009-06-2622 mineLearningCurveWhy You Need a Data Quality AssessmentA data quality assessment is not just about finding errors, but about measuring their impact on various business processes. Yet in the absence of a comprehensive methodology, measuring data quality remains an elusive concept. In this episode of The Learning Curve, data quality guru Arkady Maydanchik will provide some insights about the process and practical challenges of data quality assessments. He'll overview the systematic treatment of various data quality rules and discuss the process for building a data quality scorecard. Webcast duration is just 20 minutes.2009-06-1221 min