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	<title>IQTrainwrecks.com &#187; General Trainwrecks</title>
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		<title>Google maps inaccuracies</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/07/12/google-maps-inaccuracies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spotted this on Gawker.com. From my experience using Google Maps, it rings true (I recently was sent 15 miles out of my way on a trip in rural Ireland). It seems that Google Maps has plotted the location of a tourist attraction in New Jersey right at the end of a driveway to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why 2k?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/01/20/why-2k/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ Trainwrecks and Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT media sources are reporting that reports of the demise of the Y2k bug may have been premature. (see also here) Systems affected included Spam control software and other security software from a leading vendor, network equipment from leading vendors as well as credit card payment systems in Germany and Australia, as well as (it seems) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the ocean&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/01/07/in-the-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blue Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Poor geographic data gives rubbish results.  Recently I read in Railways Africa: “Electronic files of Southern California’s rail system can be downloaded from the Federal Railroad Administration’s website,” the Los Angeles Times says, “but are riddled with errors, placing hundreds of rail crossings at points far from any railroad tracks. Many are shown in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These are the IQ trainwrecks in your neighbourhood</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/01/these-are-the-trainwrecks-in-your-neighbourhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/05/01/these-are-the-trainwrecks-in-your-neighbourhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled upon this lovely pictorial IQTrainwreck today on Twitter. Thanks to Angela Hall (@sasbi) for taking the time to snap the shot and tweet it and for giving us permission to use it here. As Angela says on her Twitpic tweet: Data quality issue in the neighborhood? How many street signs (with diff names) are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Retail Data Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/29/the-retail-data-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/29/the-retail-data-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal issues in iq]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at SmartDataCollective, Daniel Gent has shared an excellent example of a very common scenario in organizations across the globe&#8230; the troubling matter of the duplicated, fragmented and inconsistent customer details. He shares a story with his readers about a recent trip to a retail store which used his telephone number as the search string [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the end of the world as we know it&#8230; or is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/04/16/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/04/16/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo is today carrying a story from AFP about a 13 year old German school boy who has corrected NASA&#8217;s calculations on the probability of &#8216;planet killer&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media trainwrecks (one of two)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/02/04/media-trainwrecks-one-of-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/02/04/media-trainwrecks-one-of-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Irish uber-blogger and technology journalist Damien Mulley come two excellent examples of poor quality information getting loose. The first concerns an article published in the Irish Examiner Newspaper. They published a story this week which puported to show that Irish employers were losing millions of euro due to staff members using Social Networking sites like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream host, Billing Nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/01/16/dream-host-billing-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/01/16/dream-host-billing-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ Trainwrecks and Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy (yet again) of The Register comes this case of poor Information Quality. It seems that US web hosting company DreamHost accidentally overbilled its customers for services due to what has been described as a &#8220;fat finger error&#8221;. Full details of the good intentions that paved the path to this Information Quality Hell can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden data, hidden dangers</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/09/06/hidden-data-hidden-dangers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/09/06/hidden-data-hidden-dangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>grahamrhind</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/09/06/hidden-data-hidden-dangers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been an advocate of speaking of &#8220;data&#8221; rather than of &#8220;databases&#8221;, and have always felt that hiding data within large integrated database systems is a danger not only to the quality of the data but to the owners of the data themselves: the customers. A couple of recent events illustrate this very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A timebomb or a trainwreck-in-waiting?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2007/07/04/a-timebomb-or-a-trainwreck-in-waiting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC website carries this story today about a looming Information Quality problem. For information to be of &#8216;quality&#8217; it needs to meet our expectations. One basic expectation is that you are able to get at the information. The British National Archives warns of a &#8220;digital dark age&#8221; as a result of obsolete file formats (does [...]]]></description>
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