The Quality of Analytics Practice: Making It Happen

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In my previous blog, “Who is looking after the quality of your analytics?”, I talked about what it meant to ensure the quality of analytics work. We readily speak of using analytics to improve the quality of other things but rarely ever of the quality of analytics itself. I also argued quality could be defined in terms of defects one way or another. This means perfect quality can be expressed as the absence of defects. Well, it is one thing to talk about quality. How do we implement it in an analytics practice? How data quality relates to the quality…...

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Michiko Wolcott Michiko is currently the managing partner and principal consultant of Msight Analytics, a management consulting firm specializing in data and analytics. Backed by 20 years of experience in analytical project execution and delivery, she has helped organizations of all sizes in the development of enterprise capability and effectiveness in data and analytics. She has led multi-national analytical consulting practices, with clients and colleagues from across the globe in financial services, media and communications, retail, healthcare, life sciences, public sector, as well as humanitarian response and disaster management, and has spoken at many industry conferences and forums. Her prior responsibilities include serving as the Lead Data Scientist at North Highland and leading the international analytics practice at Equifax as the Vice President of International Analytics. Michiko holds a Master of Science degree in Statistics from Florida State University among other degrees from Florida State University and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.

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