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Feb152010

Data Quality Mad Libs (Part 1)

Data Quality Mad Libs is a new OCDQ series.

For the uninitiated, Mad Libs are sentences with several of their key words or phrases left intentionally blank. 

Next to each blank is indicated what type of word should be entered, but you get to choose the actual words. 

The completed sentence can be as thought-provoking, comical, or nonsensical as you want to make it.

 

Data Quality Mad Lib

“The most

_______________ (adjective)

thing about

_______________ (noun or phrase)

is that it

_______________ (verb)

your

_______________ (noun or phrase)

by essentially

_______________ (phrase)

your enterprise systems.”

 

My Version

“The most surprising thing about master data management is that it improves your customer data quality by essentially deleting every customer record from your enterprise systems.”

 

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    Mad Lib Jim Harris has started a Data Quality Mad Lib series over at OCDQ Blog which I decided instead of leaving my version of the Mad Lib in his comment section to share it with everyone here. In case you have forgotten how a Mad Lib works, it is a s...

Reader Comments (8)

“The most annoying thing about data governance is that it reverse engineers your data architect by essentially placing faith in your enterprise systems.”

February 15, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterGarnie Bolling

“The most hysterical thing about data is that it messes with your organization by essentially running your enterprise systems.”

February 15, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPhil Simon

“The most sexy thing about RDF is that it annihilates your ecosystem by essentially complexifying your enterprise systems.”

February 15, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPaul Boal

“The most difficult thing about data matching is that it may wrongly link some of your master data records and there-by essentially not placing faith in your enterprise systems.”

February 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterHenrik Liliendahl Sørensen

“The most wasteful thing about poor data quality is that it dramatically increases the cost and delays of your strategic initiatives by essentially stalling or delivering sub-standard elements of your enterprise systems.”

February 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDylan Jones

“The most frustrating thing about some business intelligence is that it misleads your management by essentially just regurgitating as a 3-D pie chart the garbage data in your enterprise systems.”

February 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJames Standen

“The most dangerous thing about poor data quality is that it decreases the value of your business intelligence by essentially poisoning the key resource created by your enterprise systems.”

February 16, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKelly Lautt

“The most exciting thing about data quality is that it enhances your enterprise by essentially auditing your enterprise systems.”


March 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterWilliam Sharp

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