Data quality assessment

  • Authors:
  • Leo L. Pipino;Yang W. Lee;Richard Y. Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell;Northeastern University, Boston, MA;Boston University and MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

How good is a company's data quality? Answering this question requires usable data quality metrics. Currently, most data quality measures are developed on an ad hoc basis to solve specific problems [6, 8], and fundamental principles necessary for developing usable metrics in practice are lacking. In this article, we describe principles that can help organizations develop usable data quality metrics.