A Taxonomy of Dirty Time-Oriented Data

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Data quality is a vital topic for business analytics in order to gain accurate insight and make correct decisions in many data-intensive industries. Albeit systematic approaches to categorize, detect, and avoid data quality problems exist, the special characteristics of time-oriented data are hardly considered. However, time is an important data dimension with distinct characteristics which a ffords special consideration in the context of dirty data. Building upon existing taxonomies of general data quality problems, we address `dirty' time-oriented data, i.e., time-oriented data with potential quality problems. In particular, we investigated empirically derived problems that emerge with di fferent types of time-oriented data (e.g., time points, time intervals) and provide various examples of quality problems of time-oriented data. By providing categorized information related to existing taxonomies, we establish a basis for further research in the field of dirty time-oriented data, and for the formulation of essential quality checks when preprocessing time-oriented data.
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2012
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 7465): Multidisciplinary Research and Practice for Information Systems (Proceedings of the CD-ARES 2012)
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Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg
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Prague, Czech Republic
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978-3-642-32497-0
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http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_209199.pdf
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10.1007/978-3-642-32498-7_5
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