The Idea of Order in Data
As I explained in my previous post, which used the existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to explain the existence of…
Hell is other people’s data
I just read the excellent blog post Data Migration – and existentialist angst by John Morris, which asks the provocative…
Data Quality View: The Cassandra Effect
Data Quality (DQ) View is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-View is a brief video discussion of a data quality…
A Record Named Duplicate
Although The Rolling Forecasts recently got the band back together for the Data Rock Star World Tour, the tour scheduling…
DQ-View: Is Data Quality the Sun?
Data Quality (DQ) View is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-View is a brief video discussion of a data quality…
Is your data complete and accurate, but useless to your business?
Ensuring that complete and accurate data is being used to make critical daily business decisions is perhaps the primary reason…
Minding data’s pedigree
Does it seem to you like data analysis is busting out all over the place? It might become another fun…
Podcast: Stand-Up Data Quality (Second Edition)
Last December, while experimenting with using podcasts and videos to add more variety and more personality to my blogging, I…
How do you define your master data?
There are numerous definitions for “master data” ranging from one sentence to a few paragraphs. This is perhaps the most…