Most Times the Home Team Wins
This summer is going to be huge if you like sports. The Olympics is coming to London and only 14 days away from now we have the European football (soccer) championship in Poland and Ukraine. As usual...
View ArticlePulling Data Quality from the Cloud
In a recent post here on the blog the benefits of instant data enrichment was discussed. In the contact data capture context these are some examples: Getting a standardized address at contact data...
View ArticleSharing Bigger Data
Yesterday I attended an event called Big Data Forum 2012 held in London. Big data seems to be yet a buzzing term with many definitions. Anyway, surely it is about datasets that are bigger (and more...
View ArticleBeyond Address Validation
The quality of contact master data is the number one data quality issue around. Lately there has been a lot of momentum among data quality tool providers in offering services for getting at least the...
View ArticleThe Big Tower of Babel
3 years ago one of the first blog posts on this blog was called The Tower of Babel. This post was the first of many posts about multi-cultural challenges in data quality improvement. These challenges...
View ArticleSometimes Google Translate is a Foolish Friendship
This morning I stumbled upon an article in a Norwegian online newspaper. A rather unlikely incident actually happened to a driver, as he avoided hitting an elk on the road, but then ran into a bear....
View ArticleCross Border Data Quality
In data quality improvement you always have to find a balance between the almost impossible, and usually not sensible, vision of achieving zero percent defects and the good old 80-20 rule about aiming...
View ArticleHotel Rating Data Quality
Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure you like to stay in a hotel that suites your expectations. What is good and what is bad differs between us individuals. But we may all belong to some...
View ArticleMy Name is Bond. Jimmy Bond.
Right now the 23rd James Bond film called Skyfall is out in cinemas. And oh yes, he does say that his name is Bond. James Bond. There were actually some films before the current row of James Bond films...
View ArticleHurray! I am on LinkedIn
These days LinkedIn are celebrating passing 200 million profiles. This is done by sending us members a mail telling about our part in the success. The mail message is easily sharable on LinkedIn,...
View ArticleNames, Addresses and National Identification Numbers
When working with customer, or rather party, master data management and related data quality improvement and prevention for traditional offline and some online purposes, you will most often deal with...
View ArticleThe World of Measuring
A common data quality issue in data management is the use of different measuring systems. Let’s have a look at some of the issues. Mile or Kilometer, Pound or Kilogram There is the imperial system with...
View ArticleReal World Alignment and Continental Drift
You can find many great analogies for working with data quality and Master Data Management (MDM) in world maps. One example is reported in the post The Greenland Problem in MDM, which is about how...
View ArticleWhere the Streets have Two Names
As told in post The Art in Data Matching a common challenge in matching names and addresses is that in some parts of the world the streets have more than one name at the same time because more than one...
View ArticleWhere the Streets have one Name but Two Spellings
Last week’s post called Where The Streets have Two Names caught a lot of comments both on this blog and in LinkedIn groups as here on Data Quality Professionals and on The Data Quality Association,...
View ArticleKnow Your (Foreign Luxury Bag) Customer
A story featured a lot in the media the last days is the incident where one of richest women on the planet, Oprah Winfrey, was told that she couldn’t afford the handbag she wanted to look at in a...
View ArticleOn Maps, Data Quality and MDM
Maps are great but sometimes you’ll have some trouble with data quality issues on maps as told in the post Troubled Bridge over Water. When it comes to political borders on maps things may get really...
View ArticleA Universal Challenge
Yesterday on The Postcode Anywhere blog Guy Mucklow wrote a nice piece called University Challenge. The blog post is about challenges with shared addresses and a remedy at least for addresses in the...
View ArticleThink global from day one
The title of this post is taken from a blog post by Hans Peter Bech. The post is called Entering a Foreign Market – The 9 Steps to Success for Software Companies. In the post Hans Peter says: “German...
View ArticleData Quality, Real World Alignment and Visualization by Maps
Babbling about data quality, real world alignment and maps is a regular topic on this blog and this Saturday is no exception. This week I stumbled on a discussion in the “Data, Data, Data” community on...
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