Archive for April, 2007
Another Amazon Trainwreck
This story appeared on The Register website last week. Our eagle eyed Information Quality Crash Investigators only spotted it today. To read the original story please follow this link .
This is not the first time that Amazon has appeared in an Information Quality trainwreck - pricing issues on their sites a few years ago resulted […]More people registered to vote than live in Ireland
The background
An Irish Sunday Newspaper broke the story in 2006 that there were up to 860,000 more people registered to vote in the Irish Republic than actually lived there. To put that in perspective, the number of persons resident in Ireland who were of an age to vote was only approximately 2.6 million or so. […]What is an IQ Trainwreck?
An IQ Trainwreck is a problem that affects real people in the real world that has, at its heart, poor quality information or a failure to manage the quality of information. These can range from the inconvenience of dealing with poor customer service from poor quality data/information (see www.obriend.info for an example) to the loss […]
