Month: January 2020

Data management helps you and your organization capture data in a structured and organized way. Also, data management helps improve data quality and makes the data easier to discover. Correct data management implementation brings many advantages to your organization, allowing you and your team to make more informed decisions and improve inefficient processes. But what does data management include?

Data management tackles topics such as data collection and data processing. Let’s take a deeper look at data management. In this article, you’ll find out some of the most important data management best practices and pitfalls.

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A data audit helps you assess the accuracy and quality of your organization’s data. For many organizations, data is the most valuable asset because it can be deployed in so many ways. Organizations can use their data to improve existing processes or services, make important business decisions, or even predict future revenue. And of course, it’s of great value for the marketing team.

However, when your organization doesn’t adhere to standards or processes related to data accumulation and storage, you might end up with poor-quality data. By regularly conducting a data quality audit, you make sure the quality of your data stays high. Even if the quality decreases at some point, you can take immediate action to fix or improve problematic processes.

This article will help you understand how to get started with a data quality audit. First, let’s discuss the importance of a data quality audit.

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Did you know that Facebook stores over 1000 terabytes of data generated by users every day? That’s a huge amount of data, and I’m only talking about one application! And hundreds of quintillion bytes of data are generated every day in total.

With so much data being generated, it becomes difficult to process data to make it efficiently available to the end user. And that’s why the data pipeline is used.

So, what is a data pipeline? Because we are talking about a huge amount of data, I will be talking about the data pipeline with respect to Hadoop.

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