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Plumbing the depths of information quality
Ireland’s Evening Herald newspaper carried a story recently about the costs and impacts of address data quality.
To cut a long story short, the family at Address A made enquiries with a heating contractor/plumber about the cost of a home heating system. A short time later, the plumbers arrived at Address A (who had only made […]Schoolboy millionaire dreams
In a story that, in this reader’s view says as much about the lack of imagination of modern youth as it does about information quality management, comes news that a teenager in the UK has found himself stg£300 in debt after using an ATM card his bank sent him.
When the young man went to take […]Blog Carnival of Data Quality
In a break from our usual editorial remit here at IQ Trainwrecks.com, we are pleased to host the second edition of the “Blog Carnival of Data Quality” initiated by Vincent McBurney back in November.
Given the volume of posts we had submitted, and the range of relevance to the theme that Vincent had suggested for this […]Irish Times Blogger says it better than we can… A Trainwreck Compendium
The Irish Times is one of the leading daily newspapers in Ireland. It was also one of the first with a website (www.ireland.com) in the 1990s and has taken the courageous step (in the face of Irish libel laws) of letting selected columnists write blogs as extensions of their regular print columns.
One of my personal favourites […]Poor quality information on the poor quality management of the data… (if you understand recursion…)
The IT Compliance Institute has reported that the number of affected customer credit card records that were nabbed in the TJX (TKMAXX) Data Breach a while back is actually double the amount originally thought.
Quoting from their coverage…
“Recently filed court documents indicate that the scale of the TJX data breach was essentially double what was originally […]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 […]
