Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) Guidebook

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7.10.2 Standards
Organizations often employ a family of standards that include not only commonly recognized
approaches for the management and utilization of data assets, but also proven and successful
methods for representing and sharing data. Given the diversity of systems, these standards can
be applied at the earliest practical point in the data lifecycle, such as during initial on premise
data encryption, and industry standards for an open data architecture can be used wherever
practical. In the instance of secure encryption, standards for maintaining data security can be
applied through all stages of the data lifecycle, not exclusively during the initial backup or
download of data. Standards enable data and information to be readily and securely utilized
and exchanged. Without a standardized method for data creation, collection, storage, and
sharing, errors in data accuracy and security can arise and jeopardize operations.

7.10.3 Data Testing and Evaluation

Data testing and evaluation allows organizations to make sure that the data is correct and
complete. This process can determine if a database can go successfully through any needed
transformations without loss, that the database can deal with specific and incorrect data in a
proper way, and that all the expected data in the front end of your system has been
represented correctly in the corresponding input. A test is defined as a program, procedure, or
process to obtain, verify, or provide data for determining the degree to which a system (or
subsystem) meets, exceeds, or fails to meet its stated requirements. To evaluate in this context
means to review, analyze, and assess data obtained from testing to project system performance
under operational conditions. The overall goal of testing and evaluation is to identify data
errors, system shortfalls, and risk associated with go live, providing crucial information to
decision makers.

7.10.4 Data Governance

Data governance provides the principles, policies, processes, frameworks, tools, metrics, and
oversight required to effectively manage data at all levels, from creation to disposition. Data
governance allows stakeholders to be heard and represented in an organized fashion. Data
governance is conducted at cascading levels with all problems addressed at the lowest level
possible. Data governance comprises of local system choices that impact data throughout its
lifecycle. In order to support localized system decisions and resolve issues at the lowest level
possible, organizations often utilize a low-code or no-code IT environment, where technology is
utilized that enables non-developers to build custom apps without coding, so that easy data
integration, no matter an employee’s technical background, is possible.

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