From the course: Introduction to Business Analytics (2020)

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Data governance

Data governance

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Data governance

- [Instructor] Whether you realize it or not, your organization is creating a ton of data, every single day. But how much of that data's high enough quality to drive a decision? This is where data governance comes into play. Data governance is a collection of practices and processes which help ensure the quality of the data assets within your organization. The major challenge with data governance is getting enough high quality data in time to make a decision. The specifics of this challenge, they shift based on the size of your organization. Now I've worked with data from Fortune 500 companies, all the way down to small startups with just a few employees. In large organizations, there's a specific challenge of achieving data continuity across the different departments and the different data collection systems. Oftentimes legacy systems, or in other words, just old programs, are not collecting data effectively, or…

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