Driving Data Quality
What's Hot 🔥
Gartner Magic Quadrant - Augmented Data Quality Solutions 🤖
Buzzword - data washing 🧼
Solar Eclipse Map & Data 🌔
Salt in your diet 🥨
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
What's Hot 🔥
Reddit set for hotly anticipated debut after pricing IPO at top of range
The San Francisco, California-based company priced its initial public offering (IPO) at the top end of the $31 to $34 range it had marketed earlier. The IPO valued Reddit at $6.4 billion and raised $748 million for the company and its selling shareholders.
"The real news is going to be after the first earnings call - where are they headed, what are the results looking like, what changes are they going to make," said Reena Aggarwal, director of the Georgetown University Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. (Source:Â reuters.com)
Google to IBM: How big tech giants are embracing Nvidia’s new hardware and software services
However, GTC is never complete without industry partnerships. Nvidia shared how it is evolving its work with several industry giants by taking its newly announced AI computing infrastructure, software and services to its tech stack. Follow the link for a rundown of key partnerships: (Source: venturebeat.com)
ESG fraud is a growing risk for Canadian organizations, KPMG poll shows
"The fact that stakeholders are demanding accountability for ESG performance is a positive factor for driving change, but unfortunately it can motivate – and already is motivating – some individuals or teams within organizations to misrepresent or inflate their sustainability and financial metrics for corporate or personal gain," says Becky Seidler, a partner in KPMG in Canada's forensic and dispute advisory practice. (Source: newswire.ca)
Informatica Tops Report on AI-Driven 'Augmented Data Quality' 🤖
The research firm defines augmented data quality solutions as providing "a set of capabilities for enhanced data quality experience aimed at improving insight discovery, next-best-action suggestions and process automation by leveraging AI/machine learning (ML) features, graph analysis and metadata analytics."
Use cases include:
Analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning development
Data engineering
Data and analytics (D&A) governance
Master data management
Operational/transactional data quality
Beyond the Buzzwords 🧼
Inspired by this week's survey results from KPMG on ESG fraud, the buzzword is,Â
 data washing
Ms. Seidler says the survey findings underscore the need for organizations to implement strong controls that properly address ESG fraud. ESG fraud can take many forms, such as falsifying carbon offsets in ESG reporting, greenwashing and other types of data "washing", misusing ESG grant funds, breaching ESG regulations and bribery and corruption, for example.Â
The 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses: Map and Data 🌔
This map uses datasets from several NASA missions. The eclipse data were calculated by visualizer Ernie Wright using elevation information from SRTM, lunar topography from LRO, and planetary positions from the JPL DE421 ephemeris. The lead visualizer, Michala Garrison, used Earth imagery from NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation to create the terrain map. Likewise, nighttime Earth imagery from NASA’s Black Marble were used along the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse. (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Tips to reducing salt in your diet, for heart health 🥨
try adding flavour to your food with herbs and spices, black pepper, garlic, chili or lemon juice instead of salt
limit the amount of salt you add when cooking and eating – try tasting your food before adding any extra salt to your meals
check food labels – look for products with green and amber colour-coded labels on the front of the packaging
choose lower-salt foods by checking the salt content on the back or side of the packaging
try low or reduced-salt versions of foods and sauces – for example, low salt soy sauce and stock cubes
buy tinned vegetables, pulses or fish in water instead of brine
eat salty foods less often or in small amounts – for example, cured meats and fish, cheese, olives and pickles
have healthier snacks, such as plain rice cakes, fruit, vegetable sticks or unsalted nuts
be aware that some dissolvable tablets, such as painkillers, vitamins or prescription medicines, may be high in salt – speak to your GP before changing any medicines (Source: nhs.uk)