Data Governance vs. Data Quality | Upcoming Data Events & Data Podcast Episodes

We often hear of data quality and data governance belonging together. That one cannot have good data quality without data governance. And that by doing data governance we achieve data quality. How so? What does that mean?

What is the relationship between data governance and data quality? Or are they the same thing?

Let's look at data quality first. Data Quality or Data Quality Management to be more exact is focused on ensuring the data adheres to our data quality dimensions. In other words, that data is:

• Complete
• Valid
• Accurate
• Timely
• Consistent
• Etc.

Data quality has a few dimensions and I will cover that in a separate article. But to clarify, data quality management ensures that our data adheres to these dimensions.

As Dr. Peter Aiken puts it, data quality ensures our data is "fit for purpose". Or To put it simply, data quality management ensures that we have data of good quality, data that is clean.

When it comes to data governance, I think this comes to no surprise that there are different definitions on what data governance is. Check out my other article on data governance to go over that or the one about data governance and data management to get more details and a better understanding on what each one of these is. But if you'd like to take a shortcut, data governance is “the discipline which provides the necessary policies, processes, standards, roles and responsibilities needed to ensure that data is managed as an asset.”

By now you might say, "Ok, I kind of get it, but we have data quality without having data governance." If that's the case I think there's 2 possible realities:

1. There is no data governance
2. Data governance exists, but it is undercover

Read more about the above in the full article on Data Quality and Data Governance.

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