Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ) Radio

Special guest Daragh O Brien discusses how information quality is bigger on the inside, how to use stories as an analytical tool and change management technique, and why we must never forget that “people are cool.”

Special guest Julie Hunt discusses data quality and business intelligence, including the speed versus quality debate of near-real-time decision making, predictive analytics, and other techniques needed in the constantly changing business world.

Special guest Gordon Hamilton discusses data quality key concepts, including those which he has studied in some of his favorite data quality books, and more important, those which he has implemented in his career as a data quality practitioner.

Special guest Loretta Mahon Smith, Vice President of Communications for DAMA International, provides an overview of the DAMA Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) and Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) certification program.

Special guest Mark Horseman of the University of Saskatchewan discusses data quality and master data management in the context of higher education, including the data-related challenges of students, courses, and grades.

Special guest Graham Rhind discusses the international challenges of postal address and person name data quality, including its implications for web forms and other data entry interfaces.

Special guests Jill Dyché and Dan Soceanu of DataFlux discuss topics from the 2011 Pacific Northwest BI Summit, including Cloud, Collaboration, and Big Data, the last of which lead to a discussion about Big Analytics.

Special guest Dr. Thomas C. Redman (the “Data Doc”) discusses organizing for data quality (i.e., how your organization should approach data quality), including his call to action for your role in the data revolution.

Special guest Phil Simon discusses his fourth book "The Age of the Platform", which is about how companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are making us rethink the future of business.

Special guest Crysta Anderson, a Social Media Strategist for IBM, discusses social media strategy, including three recommended practices: (1) Listen intently, (2) Communicate succinctly, and (3) Have fun.

Special guest James Standen of Datamartist.com discusses data profiling concepts and practices, including comparing data perception with data reality, and identifying potential data problems before they become major business impacts.

On this extended and Star Wars themed episode, special guests Rob Karel of Forrester Research and Gwen Thomas of The Data Governance Institute discuss balancing bureaucracy and business agility on data governance programs.

Special guests Dalton Cervo and Mark Allen, authors of the book "Master Data Management in Practice: Achieving True Customer MDM", discuss how to properly prepare for a new MDM program.

Special guest Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen discusses data matching concepts and practices, including preparing data with standardization and enrichment, comparing data using deterministic and probabilistic techniques, and reviewing data matching results.

Special guest Dylan Jones discusses the new features of Data Quality Pro, the largest membership resource dedicated entirely to the data quality profession.