Empire State Building lights up for #WinterClassic between @t… on Twitpic. Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org
Read more →Wait a minute! The infograph below depicts some very interesting facts about activities that occur every 60 seconds. It appears that email is still king. Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet. Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org
Read more →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 →Here is a great question I found and answered on Quora. I thought I would post it so we can stay up-to-date on the answers: Can Big Data and Social Media help HR in efficient/quality hiring? Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org
Read more →Here is a great question I found on Quora and thought I’d post it so we can stay up-to-date on the answers: What are some of the slick tools available to wrangle “Big Data” datasets? Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org
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) [...]
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