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Defining data quality

Defining data quality

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Defining data quality

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- [Mark] In the previous video, we talked about the impact of data quality. And now that we know why it's so important to account for, what exactly is data quality? And this is actually a really hard thing to define. If you think about it, data quality's been around for centuries. Since people recorded data, there has been data quality. And there's been decades from the beginning of computers and all that research in the seventies, people thinking about data quality. It's a huge ask to come up with a single term. And actually, I wrote a book on data quality, and I spent months going through literature trying to figure out a correct way to define it. And so I'm going to provide you three different definitions that I like, and then from there go into what to consider for data quality in defining it. And so these are the three kind of pieces of literature that I'm going to be pulling from. "Data Quality Fundamentals" by Barr Moses, Lior Gavish, and Molly Vorwerck. Another book, "Data…

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