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Data Lineage and Horse Meat - A Cautionary Tale (Musings of a Data Geek)
Recently, laboratories in Ireland discovered that some of their processed beef contained horse meat. The public were outraged, and the Food Standards Agency insisted that all retail sold processed beef in the UK was DNA tested for horse meat. Some high profile branded processed beef products have been found to contain 100% horse meat.
Now the general public are very concerned that they have been eating food that could…
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Added by Richard on February 13, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments
The Hawthorne Effect, Helter Skelter, and Data Governance by Jim Harris
In his book The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date, Samuel Arbesman introduced me to the Hawthorne Effect, which is “when subjects behave differently if they know they are being studied. The effect was named after what happened in a factory called Hawthorne Works outside Chicago…
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Programmer Bob by Julie Lockner
Verizon recently blogged about one of its clients who caught an employee outsourcing his software development day job to China. While sitting at his computer working a normal day, he paid someone else to log into his computer using his physical RSA token which he FeExed to the contractor in Shenyang. He would spend the day surfing the internet while…
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BI Centralisation - The Governance Challenges by Richard Northwood - Musings of a Data Geek
Many organisations are looking to build Business Intelligence competency centres, by pooling resources, systems and processes into one area. This has many advantages. But you may encounter some fierce opposition to your plans. Here are the top reasons why people will oppose your plans:
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Added by Richard on February 3, 2013 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments
Logitech MDM Case Study: Live Questions, Answers and Attendee Poll Results
Last week, I posted this blog: Logitech MDM Case Study: Seven Lessons for Mastering Product and Customer Data (Part I of II) which shares highlights from recent webinar. Logitech’s Severin Stoll, Senior Business Engagement Manager of Global IT Solutions spoke with David Decloux, MDM technical lead in EMEA about Logitech’s…
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Data Quality and Anton’s Syndrome by Jim Harris of OCDQ Blog
In his book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman discussed aspects of a bizarre, and rare, brain disorder called Anton’s Syndrome in which a stroke renders a person blind — but the person denies their blindness.
“Those with Anton’s Syndrome truly believe they…
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Joining data - an ethical question
As the olympics drew to a close, the business of collating and analysing the data began in earnest. Take for instance the medal table. There has already been some interesting statistics emerging.
When you looked at the normal medal table, ordered by medal count, you see the usuals at the top - China, USA etc. But when you cross-reference the medal volumes against each country's population size, you get a very different view. As a measure of medals per capita, New Zealand are top…
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Added by Richard on December 28, 2012 at 6:21pm — No Comments
Managing the mavericks
Centralising specialist functions within a large organisation is generally the best way of ensuring that operations are run in a consistent and professional manner. For IT related functions, this is vital. Departments that are entirely focused on non-data goals like sales, manufacturing or customer services may easily become disillusioned by the IT department and what they see as excessive time, cost and red tape. This gives rise to a phenomenon I have named "the data…
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How to Map Data Governance Policies to Business Processes by Sunil Soares
Business process management and data governance are beginning to converge. Data governance practitioners need to take advantage of this trend for the following reasons:
- Address data at the source – Data stewards can use data profiling tools and data quality scorecards to uncover issues with the underlying data.…
Added by GovernYourData on November 30, 2012 at 5:00am — No Comments
Breaking through the Cassandra Complex by Richard North (Musings of a Data Geek)
So we all know about the Cassandra Complex from a previous post? Take time to read it. Done that? Good! So here is part two - getting your colleagues to believe in what you are saying, and act on your…
Added by GovernYourData on November 17, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments
Latest Blog Posts
- Data Lineage and Horse Meat - A Cautionary Tale (Musings of a Data Geek)
- The Hawthorne Effect, Helter Skelter, and Data Governance by Jim Harris
- Programmer Bob by Julie Lockner
- BI Centralisation - The Governance Challenges by Richard Northwood - Musings of a Data Geek
- Logitech MDM Case Study: Live Questions, Answers and Attendee Poll Results
- Data Quality and Anton’s Syndrome by Jim Harris of OCDQ Blog
- Joining data - an ethical question
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- BI Centralisation - The Governance Challenges by Richard Northwood - Musings of a Data Geek
- Logitech MDM Case Study: Live Questions, Answers and Attendee Poll Results
- Breaking through the Cassandra Complex by Richard North (Musings of a Data Geek)
- Programmer Bob by Julie Lockner
- Data Lineage and Horse Meat - A Cautionary Tale (Musings of a Data Geek)
- Data Quality and Anton’s Syndrome by Jim Harris of OCDQ Blog
- How to Map Data Governance Policies to Business Processes by Sunil Soares
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