Rupa Mahanti

Rupa Mahanti is a business and information management consultant and has extensive and diversified consulting experience in different solution environments, industry sectors, and geographies (United States, United Kingdom, India, and Australia). With work experience that spans industry, academics, and research, Mahanti has guided a doctoral dissertation, published a large number of research articles, and is the author of the book Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management and Governance (ASQ Quality Press, 2019). She is a reviewer for several international journals and publisher of “The Data Pub” newsletter on Substack.

Tue, 03/10/2020 - 12:03
Data Must Be Kept Fresh!Understanding data decay
Thu, 03/16/2023 - 12:03
Data decay, or the aging of data, is data degradation over time—which results in bad data quality (Mahanti 2019). There are some data, such as date of birth and place of birth, which are evergreen and not subject to decay; that is, if you have…
The Need for Data Governance With data as the fuel of the digital economy, data governance is the much needed brake
Tue, 03/07/2023 - 12:03
Data are an enterprise asset, and data governance (DG) is about establishing policies, processes, rules, standards, and controls around data to improve the quality of data and ensure data security and privacy.1 However, organizations struggle to…
Data Profiling: The First Step in Climbing the Data Quality LadderNo one wants to pay the cost of bad data
Wed, 02/08/2023 - 12:02
Data are an organization’s most valuable asset. However, too much data are inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant, obsolete, not well defined, or otherwise not fit for use. Bad quality data can lead to operational inefficiencies, poor decision making,…
Is Data Quality the Same As Data Accuracy?Accurate data can be of poor quality if it doesn’t suit its intended purpose
Wed, 03/23/2022 - 12:03
We are living in the digital age, and data have a universal presence that directly or indirectly affects our lives, even when we’re not aware of it. Hence, data quality is an important topic of discussion. Data quality isn’t only an aspect of data…
Critical Data Elements and Data QualityNot everything that can be counted counts
Tue, 03/10/2020 - 12:03
We are currently living in the digital age and are drowning in an ocean of data. Organizations have a large number of data entities and data elements, and a large volume of data corresponding to the same, and they continue to amass more and more…