A Brave New Data World
Jim Harris in Data Quality, OCDQ Radio, Podcasts tagged Accuracy, Business Intelligence, Metadata Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 3:00AM OCDQ Radio is a vendor-neutral podcast about data quality and its related disciplines, produced and hosted by Jim Harris.
Welcome to the highly anticipated debut episode of the Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ) podcast—OCDQ Radio!
In this episode, I discuss how data, data quality, data-driven decision making, and metadata quality no longer reside exclusively within the esoteric realm of data management. Data has now so thoroughly pervaded mainstream culture that we hardly seem to notice that we are quite literally swimming in data on a daily basis.
The growing challenge is can we extract meaningful insights from these vast and veritable oceans of unrelenting data volumes, and use those insights to make better decisions in near real-time in order to positively impact the various aspects of our lives.
We are now living in a brave new data world where everyone is a data geek—and data quality affects us all.
Or to paraphrase William Shakespeare:
“O wonder!
How many goodly data are there here! How beauteous data geeks are!
O brave new world!
That is so dependent on the quality of the data in it!”
A Brave New Data World
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Reader Comments (2)
Great podcast!
And I feel your pain with the Google contacts mess. When I got my new smartphone (Android-based Atrix), I was thrilled that it would link my contacts from Google and my old Sim card, not to mention Facebook and Twitter. Big fat fail, though, as it missed many links and seems to rely on Twitter names as the default display name, with no way to change that. There were no false positives, but I've spent a lot of time manually fixing what the merge originally did. I've also learned to look up people by their Twitter handle, which makes me laugh when I receive a phone call from someone's Twitter handle.
On the Cupertino Effect, have you seen: http://damnyouautocorrect.com/ ? *
* Warning: Damn You Auto Correct! is a funny website, but has lots of AutoCorrect-provided profanity
Thanks for your great comment, Crysta! And special thanks for the very funny NSFW link :-)