What the pandemic can teach us about data governance

Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast

English - July 15, 2020 15:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB
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The coronavirus pandemic is also a case study in public data. Everywhere we look we find statistics: number of coronavirus cases, unemployment levels, economic predictions, etc. But this unprecedented access to data also leaves us with lots of questions:

Can we trust the data?
Is there unintentional bias in the data and analytical algorithms?
What role does data governance play?

In episode 9, Tim, Juan, and Anoop Lalla, former VP Enterprise Data and Analytics at Workday, chat about data governance and how organizations can deliver meaningful and accurate analysis today and in a post-pandemic future.