Comments on: Finally caught… the most dangerous driver in Ireland http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/ A Website Dedicated to Information/Data Quality Disasters from Around the World Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The perils of perpetuating errors | IQTrainwrecks.com http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-559 The perils of perpetuating errors | IQTrainwrecks.com Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:22:20 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/#comment-559 [...] has to wonder if there are similar issues here to the now infamous case of The Irish Police and the Most Dangerous Driver in Ireland? In any event, it seems likely that Virgin [...] [...] has to wonder if there are similar issues here to the now infamous case of The Irish Police and the Most Dangerous Driver in Ireland? In any event, it seems likely that Virgin [...]

]]> By: Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:35:06 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/#comment-182 If you look at: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawo_jazdy you can see that it seems to be a problem with the old national Polish format which is better with the new EU Polish format. Asking for a name can actually be quit difficult when the name is in a foreign language to you, and the spelling mistake combinations for writing down a foreign name is unbelievable high. That is actually what we also see in databases around today. Globalisation and shared service centres is causing that database users are dealing with name and address formats that they are not familiar with. This challenges the data quality as more mistakes are made and sometimes one wrongly adapts your own format. If you look at:

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawo_jazdy

you can see that it seems to be a problem with the old national Polish format which is better with the new EU Polish format.

Asking for a name can actually be quit difficult when the name is in a foreign language to you, and the spelling mistake combinations for writing down a foreign name is unbelievable high.

That is actually what we also see in databases around today. Globalisation and shared service centres is causing that database users are dealing with name and address formats that they are not familiar with. This challenges the data quality as more mistakes are made and sometimes one wrongly adapts your own format.

]]> By: Grant Robinson http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Grant Robinson Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:55:49 +0000 http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/02/20/finally-caught-the-most-dangerous-driver-in-ireland/#comment-181 This story hit metropolitan dailies in Australian as well. This story hit metropolitan dailies in Australian as well.

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