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Thursday, 28 June 2007

When is Data Quality Processing a Bad Thing?

I just finished reading an interesting article in the latest TDWI newsletter (dated today)titled "Data Cleansing versus Auditability: Achieving Competitive Advantage in a Cautious Era" It was written by Michael Mansur, Simon Terr, and David Stanvick from HP Services' Information Management Practice. It got me to thinking about the notion that there may be times when we destroy the usability of data by fixing it up too much...

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Thursday, 7 June 2007

A Whale of a Time Was Had By All!

It's June -- My birth month. I always require humor at these times. And have I got one for you...

I got the following gem from my good friend, Shelley S - a long-time Oregon resident. Turns out Oregon is one strange state... or at least has some very strange ideas about "waste disposal". The "powers that be" most definitely needed an injection of BI analytics before they decided on how to dispose of a dead whale...

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