O'Reilly Data Quality Fundamentals

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

Lock-in occurs when the cost or effort of moving away from a particular choice (platform, vendor) outweighs the benefit of doing so, even if that choice is good for the business overall. The pain of moving is simply too great to consider doing it.

whitePaper | May 27, 2021

In many organizations, we need more collaboration between businesses, analytic teams, application developers and IT operations. These teams often work with data in silos and end up duplicating efforts, failing to integrate, or missing opportunities to deliver value from data. In addition to siloed efforts, data scientists are also faced with ever-increasing volumes and speeds of data. And the reality is they’re expected to answer questions just as fast as - or faster than - before. It’s important that we’re using the right data and the right techniques to ensure optimal outcomes. Download this guide to learn more about SAS and open source.

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

With the 2022 data and analytics edition, we further expand our series of Horizon Reports to focus on an emerging area of practice that is driving institutional decision-making and strategic planning for the future—the trends, technologies, and practices that are shaping the world of postsecondary data and analytics. Based on a methodology that grounds the findings in the perspectives and expertise of a panel of leaders in higher education data and analytics, in this report we summarize the panel’s input on the major trends shaping higher education, including panelists’ reflections on the implications of this research for the future of higher education for particular institutional roles.

whitePaper | December 27, 2022

In this whitepaper we will define “data fabric,” look at different implementation strategies, and highlight the value of a logical approach. The paper will delve more deeply into the technical architecture of a logical data fabric and the key components to build a successful one, including the role played by artificial intelligence (AI) and data virtualization.

whitePaper | November 25, 2022

We live in a world of exponentially growing data. Within these massive datasets lies incredible potential, but only if users are equipped with tools capable of managing big data at scale and without lag.

whitePaper | October 27, 2022

Data governance is on everyone’s mind as we move from a static model of data to a dynamic, living, breathing data architecture. As many brilliant people have already said, data — and knowledge in general — is full of “ghosts,” or implicit knowledge existing within any organization that never makes it to documentation. Ghosts affect companies in both data and people spheres, making it challenging to modernize legacy architectures or bring new talent on board. Even more, it makes using data a challenge.