Dirty Data: Calculate the Cost
Smart companies know there's a cost to dirty and defective data. Now, there's a tool offered by Baseline Magazine that helps you calculate just what that cost might be. "As a first step, you need to adopt standard definitions for metadata—the data about data—to guide the processing of all data inputs, regardless of whether they come from legacy or already transformed applications," it writes.." This worksheet will help you calculate the price your organization pays for incomplete, inconsistent and inaccurate records."