Integrating WordPress and Social Media I love WordPress. Almost as much as I love Twitter. So when it comes to combining the two, well, I’m interested. This presentation I found on SlideShare covers more than just integrating WordPress and Twitter. In it Kevin Palmer (@kevinpalmer) covers topics like comment system integration and customization of social [...]
Read more →I thought I’d post this and go against the grain of all the recent “big data” hype. I like the presentation because it is more realistic and honest than I have seen lately. Antony Falco, COO and Co-Founder of Basho, put this presentation together. In it Antony talks frankly about the shift from traditional relational data [...]
Read more →Big Data Confusion Big Data has been marketed as the solution to increase profits and aid in the discovery of all kinds of new associations from fraud detection to patient health care. Big data seems to be linked to websites like Amazon, Google and Twitter. Big Data also seems to be linked to solutions like Hadoop and [...]
Read more →New Twitter Design is a KISS of fresh air On Thursday Twitter announced that there will be a radically new design coming that seems to be focused on making Twitter easier to use. Immediately, I think of the essential principle of KISS, Keep It Simple Superstar. Too often software engineers, and even consultants, try to [...]
Read more →As you might have noticed from my long absence in the blogosphere, I have been very busy managing and developing EMC Consulting’s Data Quality Practice. One thing has become very clear to me over the past few months … data quality is an ambiguous term that means different things to different people. I have also [...]
Read more →Activity Based Cost and Data Quality: Codependent Initiatives? Summary Activity Based Costing, or ABC, is an exercise where costs are assigned to business activities required to support critical business operations. While it is often used in support of a business process redesign (BPR) effort, it can also serve an important role in data quality (DQ) [...]
Read more →What’s an Orphan? An orphan transaction is a transaction in a “child” table without an associated transaction in a “parent” table. For instance, an address record in the Address table without a link to a customer record in the Customer table. Orphaned records lead to various issues in business operations like marketing and business analytics. Challenges [...]
Read more →Introduction Data integration is nothing new. Since the concept of data warehousing, data integration has been a major initiative for most large organizations. On the most common obstacles of integrating data into a warehouse has been the fact that assumptions about the state of the source data have been either false or flawed at best. [...]
Read more →Is Big Data better Data Quality? Big Data is everywhere. Chances are you’ve used a big data solution today. However, are big data solutions delivering big data quality? High Availability versus High Data Quality Typically, Big Data solutions are designed to ensure high availability. High availability is based on the concept that it is more important to collect [...]
Read more →7 Habits of Highly Effective Data Quality I’ve been reading Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and I couldn’t help but notice the parallels between effective people and effective data management. In the book Covey discloses that there are principles, centered on self-discipline, that lead to success and fulfillment. Sounds great, right? The [...]
Read more →I’m interested to hear the thoughts of my fellow data quality practitioners about the role of data quality, more specifically data profiling, in the data migration process. Vote, leave a comment, whatever … I’m looking for some consensus around the approach. Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org
Read more →One of the most interesting things about Talend’s matching technology offering is that it provides both deterministic and probabilistic options. In my opinion, this is a unique approach that allows for flexibility in creating a match solution. I see advantages to using these techniques in combination which could increase the number of true positives and, [...]
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