Data Quality

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President Obama Mandates Project Open Data

Renee Saris-Baglama, Ph.D. and P. Allison Minugh, Ph.D. Recently, the Obama administration issued an Executive Order to ensure government data are accessible and useful. Project Open Data (http://project-open-data.github.io/) is intended to improve transparency and spawn innovation. Agencies are tasked with thinking about data as an asset. In doing so, agencies […]

How much does bad data cost? Who knows? That data is bad, too!

Renee Saris-Baglama, Ph.D. and P. Allison Minugh, Ph.D. How much do bad data cost? Some suggest bad data might translate into a 3 trillion dollar problem (http://hollistibbetts.sys-con.com/node/1975126) although the true costs are hard to determine based on reported study data (Haug, Zachariassen, & van Liempd, 2011). What we do know […]