• About William Sharp

    Empire State Building lights up for #WinterClassic between @t… on Twitpic

    by  • December 28, 2011 • Featured • 0 Comments

    Empire State Building lights up for #WinterClassic between @t… on Twitpic. Thanks for taking the time to visit the weblog!William Sharpsharp@thedataqualitychronicle.org

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    Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet

    by  • December 27, 2011 • Featured • 0 Comments

    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

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    How To Integrate Social Media Into Your WordPress Site

    by  • December 27, 2011 • Slideshare, Social Media, twitter, WordPress • 2 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Can Big Data and Social Media help HR in efficient/quality hiring?

    by  • December 26, 2011 • Big Data, Featured • 1 Comment

    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

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    Big Data: What are some of the slick tools available to wrangle “Big Data” datasets?

    by  • December 26, 2011 • Big Data, data quality, Featured • 0 Comments

    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

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    Before you decide you want a “Big Data” solution

    by  • December 23, 2011 • data quality • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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    Big Data: Big Topic, Big Confusion

    by  • December 18, 2011 • Big Data, data quality • 10 Comments

    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 [...]

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    New Twitter Design: Simplicity is again the key

    by  • December 11, 2011 • tweeting, twitter • 1 Comment

    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 [...]

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    Too much push, not enough pull

    by  • November 19, 2011 • data quality • 3 Comments

    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 [...]

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    ABC and DQ: Codependent Initiatives?

    by  • August 26, 2011 • best practices, blogging, business case, data quality, data quality assessment, data quality business alignment, data quality challenges, data quality methodology, data quality metrics, data quality opportunities, enterprise information management • 6 Comments

    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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