The Great Data Debate – Do data quality dimensions have a place in assessing data quality?

DAMA UK/ BCS Data Management Specialist Group – 20th June 2013

Danger in dimensions

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Kenneth MacKinnon, Lloyds Banking Group

Kenneth MacKinnon

Information Domain Architect

Lloyds Banking Group

DANGER IN DIMENSIONS

DISCLAIMER

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The views expressed in the following

presentation are the author’s own and do

not necessarily reflect policy and practice

in Lloyds Banking Group

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IT JARGON

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“Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce. I mean if we just let you go around calling him a Rain God, then that suggests that you know something we don't and I'm afraid we couldn't have that."

DOUGLAS ADAMS – SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH

DIMENSIONS UNDER DEBATE

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BY FOCUSING ON DIMENSIONS ARE WE

LOOKING IN THE TENT OR OUT?

DOES A SCORECARD MEET THE NEEDS OF

YOUR STAKEHOLDERS?

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DOES THIS PASS THE SO-WHAT TEST?

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The ultimate test of whether

DQ (dimensions, metrics,

reporting, frameworks...which

ever term you like to use) has

any value relates to the

impact to the business Thomas Tong

TELL THE STORY OF THE DATA

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1. What’s the problem?

2. Why hasn’t the

problem been solved

until now?

3. What’s the possibility

or benefit if that

problem could be

solved?

4. What’s different as a

result of what your

team delivers?

5. What should they do

CONCLUSION

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