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		<title>Quality Information &#8211; it can be a lottery!</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/12/20/quality-information-it-can-be-a-lottery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ Trainwrecks and Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little while since our last post of an IQTrainwreck. That doesn&#8217;t mean that they dont&#8217; still occur. Only this past weekend Irish national broadcaster RTE published inaccurate information about the winning numbers in the Irish National Lottery draw at the end of the broadcast. .We&#8217;d like to show you video footage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accounting Accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/11/04/accounting-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Europe we learn of two stories with similar characteristics that tick all the boxes for classic Information Quality Trainwrecks. &#160; From Germany we hear that due to errors in internal accounting in the recently nationalised Hypo Real Estate, the German National debt was overstated by €55 Billion (US$76 bn approx). This was doubly embarrassing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No room at the Inn</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/29/no-room-at-the-inn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accomodation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accuracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Twitter we came across this tale of Information Quality fun and games from the South West of Ireland. Macroom is a popular tourist destination in Co. Cork. The local Town Council have invested in a portal website for the town Macroom.ie.&#160; One of the boasts of Macroom is that is just 45 minutes away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geographic Information Quality Boo boos</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/25/geographic-information-quality-boo-boos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Twitter we learn that CNN is reporting that NATO is combing Tripoli looking for Colonel Gadaffi (or any of the other variant spellings of that name). Unfortunately, if CNN are to be believed, NATO has just invaded another country to find the errant Colonel (Libya is a little further to the left people…) Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Quality problems impact reporting in US Education</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/25/information-quality-problems-impact-reporting-in-us-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/25/information-quality-problems-impact-reporting-in-us-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA IQ Train Wrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Miami Herald comes a story that highlights a number of impacts of poor quality information in key processes. In Oklahoma, schools are placed on an “improvement list” if they fail to meet standards for two consecutive years. Once on the list the school show progress in improving standards for two years before they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space triggers early release of Scottish Exam Results</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/04/space-triggers-early-release-of-scottish-exam-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was widely reported yesterday that students in Scotland who had signed up for SMS notification of their results had received them a day early, giving them a jump on their less technically minded compatriots and competitors and causing stress and distress to students, parents, educators, civil servants, and politicians. The Scottish Education Authorities began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It could be YOU (and 44,999 others)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/03/it-could-be-you-and-44999-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/03/it-could-be-you-and-44999-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Irish National Lottery had an embarrassment last week when their Bank Holiday promotion draw went awry. As part of a special draw for the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Lottery were offering a prize of a Jaguar XK convertible as an additional prize to the person who won the jackpot. Unfortunately, due to apparent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google maps inaccuracies</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/07/12/google-maps-inaccuracies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/07/12/google-maps-inaccuracies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media IQ 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>Green Card, Red Faces</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/21/green-card-red-faces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/21/green-card-red-faces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political World IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA IQ Train Wrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Government is being sued in a massive class-action suit representing Green Card applicants from over 30 countries which alleges that the United States unfairly denied 22,000 people a Green Card due to a computer blunder. This story is reported in the Irish Times and the Wall Street Journal. It is not in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Healthcare data</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a change (?) it is nice (?) to see stories about healthcare IQ Trainwrecks that don&#8217;t necessarily involve loss of life, injury, tears, or trauma. Today&#8217;s Irish Examiner newspaper carries a story of the financial impacts of poor quality data in healthcare administration. At a time when the budgets for delivery of healthcare in [...]]]></description>
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