Historically, a renegade was a Christian person who decided to become Muslim, nowadays the term is much more loosely used; a renegade is anyone who betrays laws or expectations to do as they please. This is a characteristic that can be found within most, if not all, organisations where by a user of data, perhaps unknowingly, cuts, pastes and changes data to make it suitable for their own purpose. We’ve all seen it, the renegade who chooses to perform data analysis on a spreadsheet that has been replicated, manipulated and buried on a personal drive to avoid a long wait on an IT solution, or the search on a shared drive for a particular document, to find multiple copies stored in various locations.
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There are plenty of organisations out there where people within the business take little, if any, responsibility for the quality of data they manage. There are a few reasons this can exist; lack of awareness of the downstream impacts of poor data quality, ’I'm only one of thousands amending this data’ mentality or ‘everyone knows the data is rubbish anyway’ attitude – to name a few!
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I’ve followed a few data quality bloggers over the last few years and have enjoyed catching up on their thoughts on everything data related. I recently decided to create my own site to jot down my thoughts in relation to Data Quality and Data Management practices. I am new to blogging, website creation and even Twitter (gasp!) so naturally my first step was to go straight to Google and see what information I could find.