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Dr. John Talburt is Professor of Information Science and Acxiom Chair of Information Quality at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) where he serves as the Coordinator for the Information Quality Graduate Program. He also holds appointments as Executive Director of the UALR Laboratory for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality, Associate Director of the Acxiom Laboratory for Applied Research, and Co-Director of the MIT Information Quality Program’s Working Group on Customer-Centric Information Quality Management. His current research is at the intersection of information quality and information integration, particularly the areas of entity resolution and entity identification. Prior to his appointment at UALR he was a leader for research and development and product innovation at Acxiom Corporation. Professor Talburt is an inventor for several patents related to customer data integration, the author for numerous articles on information quality and entity resolution, and the winner of the 2008 DAMA International Academic Award. He can be reached at (501) 371-7616 or by email at jrtalburt@ualr.edu.

Data Speaks for Itself: Data Validation – Data Accuracy Imposter or Assistant?

In my last article, “The Shift from Syntactic to Semantic Data Curation and What It Means for Data Quality” published…

Data Speaks for Itself: The Shift from Syntactic to Semantic Data Curation

My column today is a follow-up to my article “The Challenge of Data Consistency,” published in the May 2023 issue…

Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?

Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why…

Data Speaks for Itself: Is AI the Cure for Data Curation?

By now, it is clear to everyone that AI, especially generative AI, is the only topic you’re allowed to write…

Data Speaks for Itself: Data Love and Data Limerence

Now that “data” is finally having its day, data topics are blooming like jonquils in March. Data management, data governance,…

Data Speaks for Itself: Placing Data Governance in Context

Yes, let’s talk about data governance, that thing we love to hate. I just attended the 17th Annual Chief Data…

Data Speaks for Itself: The Challenge of Data Consistency

Data quality management (DQM) has advanced considerably over the years. The full extent of the problem was first recognized during…

Data Speaks for Itself: The Path Less Traveled

As you can probably tell from my previous columns, my thinking lately has been very focused on the issue of…

Data Speaks for Itself: Waldo, Where are You?

Almost every child knows about the cute search-and-find Waldo with the red-striped shirt and cap hidden in the crowd. But…

Data Speaks for Itself: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

I had a great experience attending the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium in Cambridge this July. It…