Comments on: Imitation the sincerest form of flattery http://obriend.info/2008/10/23/imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/ Daragh O Brien on Information Quality Management & other issues Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vincent McBurney http://obriend.info/2008/10/23/imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/comment-page-1/#comment-27926 Vincent McBurney Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:00:29 +0000 http://obriend.info/?p=259#comment-27926 Informatica are sending me a Wii! I picked up the monthly prize for a data quality story. Just a little one I hadn't used on my blog. Easy pickings! I suspect I was one of the few people to submit a story. Informatica are sending me a Wii! I picked up the monthly prize for a data quality story. Just a little one I hadn’t used on my blog. Easy pickings! I suspect I was one of the few people to submit a story.

]]> By: Daragh http://obriend.info/2008/10/23/imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/comment-page-1/#comment-27687 Daragh Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:54:39 +0000 http://obriend.info/?p=259#comment-27687 Vincent, You are right of course, <a href="http://iqtrainwrecks.com" rel="nofollow">IQTrainwrecks</a> is a spiritual successor to <a href="http://dataquality.com" rel="nofollow">dataquality.com</a> (a much missed resource). A lot of people (Tom Redman for example) have done similar things. What we wanted to do was to open it up to comment and discussion a bit, hence the blog. The hardest part for me in moderating the IQTrainwrecks blog is to filter the content and the news stories and write them up (or helping our contributors write them up) in an interesting way that engages the reader- otherwise people won't come back. Also, I'm becoming a bit fanatical about 'data lineage' of the story... so we always try to have links back to the origin of our commentary. That's why there are often lags between posts over on <a href="http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com" rel="nofollow">IQTrainwrecks</a> On that note, take a look over at IQTrainwrecks over the coming days. I've been working on two recent trainwrecks (one a short one, and one big one), and Keith Underdown in Wales has submitted a new one as well. As for your suggestion for taking the Wii out of Informatica... I'll have to check with the IAIDQ's Ethics Committee on that one. Vincent,

You are right of course, IQTrainwrecks is a spiritual successor to dataquality.com (a much missed resource). A lot of people (Tom Redman for example) have done similar things. What we wanted to do was to open it up to comment and discussion a bit, hence the blog.

The hardest part for me in moderating the IQTrainwrecks blog is to filter the content and the news stories and write them up (or helping our contributors write them up) in an interesting way that engages the reader- otherwise people won’t come back. Also, I’m becoming a bit fanatical about ‘data lineage’ of the story… so we always try to have links back to the origin of our commentary.

That’s why there are often lags between posts over on IQTrainwrecks

On that note, take a look over at IQTrainwrecks over the coming days. I’ve been working on two recent trainwrecks (one a short one, and one big one), and Keith Underdown in Wales has submitted a new one as well.

As for your suggestion for taking the Wii out of Informatica… I’ll have to check with the IAIDQ’s Ethics Committee on that one.

]]> By: Vincent McBurney http://obriend.info/2008/10/23/imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery/comment-page-1/#comment-27685 Vincent McBurney Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:44:25 +0000 http://obriend.info/?p=259#comment-27685 That's a catchy URL they have there! One of the earliest data quality monitoring sites was at www.dataquality.com who tried to write about data quality problems in the press a few years ago. They couldn't keep up with all the mistakes! It has been silent for a few years now. It's a fancy looking site, I don't know whether the "online book" interface will be as popular as a blog that you can subscribe to. I am guessing most visitors will visit it once and not go back. There are reasons why blogs are so popular - RSS or email subscription, comment threads on each item, Google search access etc. Maybe you should submit a couple of your Trainwreck stories each month to win the Wii and then give it away on your blog! That’s a catchy URL they have there! One of the earliest data quality monitoring sites was at http://www.dataquality.com who tried to write about data quality problems in the press a few years ago. They couldn’t keep up with all the mistakes! It has been silent for a few years now.

It’s a fancy looking site, I don’t know whether the “online book” interface will be as popular as a blog that you can subscribe to. I am guessing most visitors will visit it once and not go back. There are reasons why blogs are so popular – RSS or email subscription, comment threads on each item, Google search access etc.

Maybe you should submit a couple of your Trainwreck stories each month to win the Wii and then give it away on your blog!

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