Having just come back from a trip to the USA, we noticed many cultural differences which we had to get used to: Use of the word ‘pavement’ to describe the surface cars drive on, whereas in England ‘pavement’ is the
Right good data or The right good data?
Most businesses are trying to ensure that they have good data, or as they might say in Yorkshire “Reet good data” (hence the flat cap image). Before expending lots of time (and money) polishing and honing your data to perfection,
Have we reached the “Data Event Horizon”?
A recent Twitter conversation with Sarah Burnett (a leading UK public sector analyst) was the trigger for this slightly tongue in cheek blog post. Sarah originally posted the following tweet: Which is an astounding statistic. Sarah and I then the
Data accident reporting
Those of you who are familiar with our blog will recall that we periodically compare how people treat data compared to real life situations. Two examples of this approach are “Would you allow this?” and “The Data Accident Investigation Board”.
Is data slowing down “the business”?
I just spotted an interesting article in Computer Weekly “High touch is just as important as high tech“. The article paints an objective picture about how human interactions have been changed by technology. From a data perspective there is an
Book Review – Master Data Management and Data Governance
As part of a recent data quality assignment, I had cause to use the recently released 2nd edition of “Master Data Management and Data Governance” by Alex Berson and Larry Dubov.
New species in the Data Zoo–The PoD
Over a period of time we have created a popular series of blog posts with a collective title of the Data Zoo which explore how people’s behaviours towards data can impact the quality and integrity of data. One of the
Do your Data Quality Heroes know who they are?
If you are a data steward (or similar) tasked with improving the quality of your organisations data, then you will be reliant on many people to help improve your data quality who will often be outside your direct team. Above
Fighting data quality crocodiles
A colleague said recently – “We need to concentrate on fighting the crocodiles nearest the canoe”, which is both useful to remember and also one of the reasons why some organisations struggle to address their data quality problems effectively.
Does your organisation have a compliance culture?
In business situations a common frustration can be that staff do not follow the defined procedure, that data updates are not supplied correctly and that business change activities take more time and cost than expected. These symptoms can indicate a