Adventures in Data Profiling
My name is Jim Harris, I am the Blogger-in-Chief here at Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ), which is an independent blog offering a vendor-neutral perspective on data quality and its related disciplines.
I am a recognized thought leader with almost 20 years of enterprise data management industry experience in data quality and its related disciplines. I am also an independent consultant, speaker, freelance writer, and regular contributor to Information-Management.com, DataRoundtable.com, and EnterpriseCIOForum.com.
Adventures in Data Profiling is a vendor-neutral collection of OCDQ content about the common functionality provided by data profiling tools. Understanding your data is essential to using it effectively and improving its quality – and to achieve these goals, there is simply no substitute for data analysis. Data profiling is a critical step in a variety of information management projects, including data quality, data warehousing, master data management, data migration, data integration, and many others.
Complete Blog Series
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 1) – Series Introduction
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 2) – Customer ID and Gender Code
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 3) – Birth Date, Telephone Number and E-mail Address
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 4) – City Name, State Abbreviation, Zip Code and Country Code
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 5) – Postal Address Line 1 and Postal Address Line 2
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 6) – Account Number and Tax ID
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 7) – Customer Name 1 and Customer Name 2
- Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 8) – Series Conclusion
Presentation
To download the presentation as an Adobe Acrobat Document (.pdf file) click on this link: Adventures in Data Profiling
Webinar
In this vendor-neutral eLearningCurve webinar, I discuss the common functionality provided by data profiling tools, which can help automate some of the work needed to begin your preliminary data analysis.
You can download the webinar (.wmv file) using this link: Adventures in Data Profiling Webinar
You can download the presentation (.pdf file) used in the webinar using this link: Adventures in Data Profiling Presentation