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In this final chapter, we will discuss four significant topics concerning the data quality profession. First, we will examine how the data quality profession has evolved. Second, we will explore what it means to be a data quality professional. Third, we will review the training opportunities currently available to those interested in becoming a data quality professional, and finally, we will assess the outlook for the future of the data quality profession. Throughout this chapter we will use the terms “data” and “information” interchangeably.
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CDO Forum (2012) The Second MIT Chief Data Officer Forum (http://mitiq.mit.edu/CDO/2012/).
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Information Quality Graduate Program, UALR IQ (http://ualr.edu/informationquality/).
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Pierce, E., Talburt, J., Yonke, C.L. (2013). Epilogue: The Data Quality Profession. In: Sadiq, S. (eds) Handbook of Data Quality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36257-6_17
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