Others are awaiting discovery, driven by needed improvements to seismic data quality to image the prospects.
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That means offloading some scut work to public clouds, while retaining internal policies around data quality.
They want the software to sell improved data quality, faster book closings, better regulatory compliance and risk management.
Redman uses the example of customer billing to develop a business case that helps data quality make the cut among competing priorities.
They said they didn't like how the big consulting firms outsourced much of their research to third parties, which created data quality control problems.
How is that sort of decision, which has an enormous impact on data quality and headline production figures, left up to the countries themselves?
But at least one of the companies' outside experts said Friday that the data quality of the study was similar to that of other trials.
Data quality will keep getting better with more timely updates to CRM, multiplying the power of our real-time reporting and analytics tools through a virtuous cycle.
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Quality and comprehensive metadata should include detailed and understandable definitions, code values, data quality metrics, and data profiles easier said than done, especially in a large enterprise.
The efforts of these sites, along with partners like the Data Quality Campaign, Living Cities, and the United Way Worldwide, are spurring on this movement.
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Great processes go a long way to improve data quality.
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As I was first to report in 2007, Merck and then-partner Schering-Plough delayed analyzing the study, called ENHANCE, for months over what they believed were data quality problems.
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For example, despite investing in IT for decades, on a 7-point scale, the companies in the sample scored 4.66 on data quality, 4.21 on usability and 3.76 and intelligence.
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It's unclear, however, exactly where Metrico tested data bandwidth, and as any iPhone-toting San Francisco resident will tell you, data quality can be terrible in areas with high concentrations of tech geeks.
One of the worst cases occurred in September 2004 when the tiny biotech firm Atherogenics had to call in Nissen to help reinterpret results of a troubled IVUS study that suffered from data quality problems.
Better data quality will result.
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Education should have a well-established, well-respected information system that yields varied and comprehensive indicators about kids, teachers, schools and school systems. (Any number of worthy organizations are trying to do something about that, including the Data Quality Campaign, the Council of Great City Schools, and GreatSchools.org).
Models are imperfect work, often done with data whose quality is limited by its current use.
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The heart is an organ that can give quantitative data of quality.
The regulator lacked the capacity to monitor crunchier data on quality.
Alegent, with nine hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, started My Cost in January 2007, posting the price of more than 500 tests and procedures along with data on quality of care.
In the end, the only explanation he and his colleagues could offer was this: The other doctors and hospitals in McAllen may be overspending, but, to the extent that his hospital provides costlier treatment than other places in the country, it is making people better in ways that data on quality and outcomes do not measure.
This efficient data management network provides free automatic quality controlled data to marine scientists and oceanographers worldwide.
Factual offer incentives to their customers to share data back, improving the quality of the data for everybody.
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He said improvements in both data collection methods and the quality of the data meant the figures published this year should not be compared directly to last year's.
Over the last 20 years or so it has expanded its mission from reducing costs in hospital supply chains to also aggregating hospital data for information on quality, safety and lab data.
"Today's trade data release has not instilled any more confidence in either the quality of data or the strength of the recovery, " said IHS Global Insight analyst Alistair Thornton in a report.
The patient testimonials were compelling and in line with the data showing enhanced quality of life.
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Earlier this year, Beijing started to release better air-quality data after a campaign by angry social-media users.
National contributions to Argo include building, deploying, and operating floats, data management and quality control, and communications.
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