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Great post by Mike Ferguson called Data Management Needs A Solid Foundation - The World of Metadata over on the Dataflux Blog

I agree with him when he says that he struggled with the definition of Metadata as “data about data”, so I really like his version of:

“When it comes to data, does the user know what it means?”

With a hat tip to Joyce Norris-Montanari there is a great blog post over at Victor Fehlberg’s Tech Postings called What is DataFlux?

Victor takes us through a walk through of cleaning up address data using Dataflux, with screenshots and all!

I am always amazed at how many companies recognise they have a data quality issue, and then relegate it to a ’spare time’ project, rather than a priority.

As they say “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” just as important is my own “any decision based on crap data is likely to be a crap decision”