Archive for April, 2008
A salutory tale of poor IQ
Gizmodo.com occasionally features ‘localisation’ problems (they spell it with a ‘z’, yet another localisation problem). As localisation raises challenges of customer expectation, information design, information presentation and a whole heap of other potential tripwires for Information Quality disasters, this is sometimes a good source of quick examples of how poor quality information can screw up […]
Aer Lingus pricing blunder brings everyone back down to earth (and now the lawyers are involved!)
The IAIDQ is holding its annual US conference (the IDQ Conference) in San Antonio this September. As a Director of the Association and a potential speaker at the event I’ve been researching my options for flying to the US as cheaply (but comfortably) as possible.
Imagine my dismay when I spotted that I’d missed an opportunity […]It’s the end of the world as we know it… or is it?
Yahoo is today carrying a story from AFP about a 13 year old German school boy who has corrected NASA’s calculations on the probability of ‘planet killer’ asteroid Apophis crashing into earth and causing a global catastrophe. The wunder-kind in question did his analysis as part of a regional science competition.
It seems that NASA forgot to factor […]The importance of language
Courtesy (yet again) of The Register.co.uk comes this salutory tale that highlights the importance of language in Information Quality, after all it is information that is being transferred when ever we communicate and the expectations of the sender and receiver of any communication can often affect how that message is understood.
The synopsis of the tale […]
