The nice people over at the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group have an excellent website with good examples of spreadsheets gone wrong. Here’s one about sorting errors… And another… here And another… here and another… here and another … here and another… here (this one relates to electoral roll data) and another… here Some of these …
I have been distracted from compiling my post on the use of excel as a data interchange mechanism by some other snippets of what Dick Roche said at yesterday’s Dail committee meeting as reported in the Irish Times (page 9) and Dublin’s freesheet Metro (page 5)… The Census Enumerators haven’t gone away… €5 million to €6 million …
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The coverage of the Dail Committee meeting on Oireachtas Report this evening was a little disappointing. They only covered the Minister’s speechifying on the topic and didn’t show if there had been any debate or challenge on the topic from any of the Opposition politicians who sit on the Committee such as Labour’s Eamon Gilmore. …
There is a Dail Committee discussion on the Electoral Register issue being held this afternoon at 16:15. The Minister for the Environment will be facing questioning on what is being done to fix our shambles of an electoral register. According to the published schedule, this discussion is to be televised. I’m not sure exactly where on …
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A few weeks back, I was at dinner with Larry English and some people from a large consulting firm. It was a social occasion and as the food and informality took hold, the discussion turned to the pillars of the Total Information Quality Management methodology and ethical/moral concerns. Mr English draws heavily on Deming and the …
His posted update… http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/05/07/amazon-uk-shift-the-goalposts/#comment-7815 my comment : http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2006/05/07/amazon-uk-shift-the-goalposts/#comment-7818
As the blog is getting legs a bit now, I thought it best to consolidate the posts of the last few weeks on the Electoral Register issues into one point of reference, particularly for readers new to the site. I am also taken the opportunity to upload a few additional articles etc. that I have written on …
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I used the contact form on the Dept of Enterprise site last night to alert them to the Amazon-inania…  Here is their response… which includes the email and name of the Private Secretary to the Minister, which I’ve cut out for sake of privacy. If anyone wants them, comment and request (I will not post this …
Tuppenceworth directed me to a worrying bit of news – Amazon have gone totally insane. Having read the posts and comments over at Michele’s blog, I had to get my writing fingers out. Let’s start with the issues in the order they come to me: The point was made that if you contacted a baker …
Quality is defined as the ability of a product or piece of information to meet or exceed the expectations of its customers/consumers. Quality begins in the design stage, at the white board when you are figuring out how your process should work. I won’t waste my energy today rattling on about our Electoral Register issues, …