
One of the fixes that we put into place was a program to identify dirty data from kids taking assessments. You would be surprised how many kids can have similar names. After our assessments returned from a vendor, we loaded them and checked for duplicates. Then we notified the data stewards in that particular school and had them match the correct students to the correct assessment. We called that our Power Match system.
Another fix that we implemented was more on the evangelism side. We had to notify the business that your job will impact the systems your schools use. If you input incorrect data on the front end, you will experience dirty data on the back end. Evangelizing that concept to the business was key. Not only do you need to tell the end users, you need to preach this to the end users organization structure. My client implemented a data score card that let the district know the amount of errors in each school. They pushed for accountability. You must do the same thing with your business partners. You must have buy in from all levels of the organization in order to be successful.
Regardless if you are in the education sector or not, you should know that it is imperative to maintain a good relationship with your business in order to identify and correct any issues that are causing consistent dirty data. As long as there are source systems that allow the problems, our teams will have to correct these issues at some point in our organizations or systems.
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