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Does your organisation munge or root cause fix its data?

Data munging, also known as data wrangling, is the process of transforming and cleaning raw data into a more usable and structured format for analysis. This involves tasks such as removing inconsistencies, handling missing values, standardising formats, and correcting errors. The goal of data munging is to prepare data for more effective and accurate analysis.…
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Use case: Office 365 email searching for servicing data subject access requests

The client receives a lot of GDPR data subject access requests (DSARs) from their clients. Responding to a DSAR almost always involves identifying emails relating to the subject to be collated from mailboxes of various service personnel across the organisation. This is a time-consuming activity for not only the individual responsible for responding to the…
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You get OUT what you put IN!

Data quality is paramount when considering artificial intelligence (AI) or business intelligence (BI) initiatives within a business. Their success and effectiveness heavily rely on the quality of the data being used for analysis, decision-making, and training AI models.
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Are you playing data whac-a-mole?

I like to highlight the similarity of familiar everyday things to enterprise data quality and compliance management. Today I’ve been thinking about the game of whac-a-mole! Whac-a-mole (Mogura Taiji) was invented in 1975 by Kazuo Yamada of the Japanese amusement ride company, TOGO. A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists of a waist-level cabinet with a play…
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How to increase trust in your data and maximise its value

“Trusted Data”, regardless of the level of trust, is data you can rely on to process information from. Its information used to gain knowledge, make decisions and act upon. Bloomberg LP say, “Because data affects the entire enterprise, solutions that deliver trusted, reliable data have similarly wide-reaching benefits. Firms that figure out how to improve…
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Automated data processing and management

Let’s party with your data. The coolest moves on the dance floor relating to data. Experience it all in this uplifting dance track video of the infoboss data platform being put through its paces!
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Have you turned your data asset into a data liability through hoarding?

Data is recognised by leading organisations to be an asset. But this doesn’t mean you should hoard it. The reality is that people do hoard their data and it ceases to become an asset and quickly turns into a liability! I read recently, that one in five people (20%) have enough clutter to fill a…
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Hiding in the data woods

Do you know what’s lurking in your unstructured data woods? It’s unlikely to be a nice friendly Christmas Elf like this! Over retained data, files that contain data that you should be protecting: payment cards, bank account details and other PII/sensitive data. Perhaps its CSV, ZIP or PST files, the single use plastics of the…
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An OCR story

A case study in converting scanned documents into text to generate insights and improve document management processes… We’re working on a client project presently where there is a requirement to convert scanned PDF documents into text. We have done this before, but for this job, there was a larger volume of documents to process than…
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Could you benefit from text analytics?

Many organisations have large collections of documents stored in shared drives either in the cloud or on premise. These documents are often referred to as unstructured data or sometimes the more sinister term “dark data” is used. A common characteristic of these data assets is that very little is understood about them. You may be…
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