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Your Point, My Comma
Spam mails can be great food for thought. This morning I had this one in one of my many mailboxes: So, the amount in question was: It’s interesting to see how the spammer used points and commas in the...
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Finding Me
Many people have many names and addresses. So have I. A search for me within Danish reference sources in the iDQ tool gives the following result: Green T is positive in the Danish Telephone Books. Red...
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The Cases for UPPER CASE in Data Management
I remember some years ago when I started SMS’ing I had an old mobile phone that defaulted the text in upper case. After I while my son answered back: “Why are you always yelling at me in SMSes”. So I...
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The Big Tower of Babel
3 years ago one of the first blog posts on this blog was called The Tower of Babel. This post was the first of many posts about multi-cultural challenges in data quality improvement. These challenges...
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Naming the Olympians
The British newspaper The Guardian has a feature on their website where you can get data about the Olympians. Link here: London 2012 Olympic athletes: the full list. Browsing the list is a good...
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Hotel Rating Data Quality
Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure you like to stay in a hotel that suites your expectations. What is good and what is bad differs between us individuals. But we may all belong to some...
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Some Kinds of Reference Data
The term ”reference data” and related Reference Data Management (RDM) is used commonly in the data quality and Master Data Management (MDM) realm. As with most terms it may be used with slightly...
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Star Bucks
Occasionally there are stories in the press about how multinational companies don’t pay taxes accordingly to where they earn their money. Lately there has been a row in the UK about that Starbucks...
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Is the Holiday Season called Christmas Time or Yuletide?
In English we have these two different terms for the coming holiday season: Christmas Time or yuletide. Christmas Time has a religious touch while yuletide is old English and resembles the term juletid...
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Postal Code Musings
When working with master data management and data quality including data matching one of the most frequent pieces of information you work with is a postal code. Wikipedia has a good article about...
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New Standards
This morning people in the United States will not wake up to the date being 04/01/2013. Instead the date will be 01/04/2013 as it is in the rest of the world. The days of the mm/dd/yyyy date format are...
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The World of Measuring
A common data quality issue in data management is the use of different measuring systems. Let’s have a look at some of the issues. Mile or Kilometer, Pound or Kilogram There is the imperial system with...
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Is Data Cleansing Bad for Data Matching?
Today I stumbled upon an article from Australia on BMC: Medical Informatics and Decision Making. The article is called The effect of data cleaning on record linkage quality. The result of the described...
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Where the Streets have Two Names
As told in post The Art in Data Matching a common challenge in matching names and addresses is that in some parts of the world the streets have more than one name at the same time because more than one...
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Where the Streets have one Name but Two Spellings
Last week’s post called Where The Streets have Two Names caught a lot of comments both on this blog and in LinkedIn groups as here on Data Quality Professionals and on The Data Quality Association,...
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The Postal Address Hierarchy
Using postal addresses is a core element in many data quality improvement and master data management (MDM) activities. As touched many times on this blog postal addresses are formatted very differently...
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Hello Leading MDM Vendor
This morning I received messages from a leading MDM vendor about an upcoming webinar the 12th September. As we have the 3rd October today this is strange and the vendor of course sent out a correction...
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Sharing Big Location Reference Data
In the post Location Data Quality for MDM the different ways of handling location master data within many companies was examined. A typical “as is” picture could be this: Location data are handled for...
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Foreign Addresses
There is a famous poster called The New Yorker. This poster perfectly illustrates the centricity we often have about the town, region or country we live in. The same phenomenon is often seen in data...
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Two Kinds of Business Rules within Data Governance
When laying out data policies and data standards within a data governance program one the most important input is the business rules that exist within your organization. I have often found that it is...
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