Following on from Michel Neylon’s on-going battle with Amazon, it looks like the illness has begun to affect Expedia (who may need to buy an atlas from Amazon). A colleague of mine just tried to book a hotel room in London for a weekend away. She got her itinerary number and had confirmed availability and …
….ye wha’? There has been a lot written in relation to the electoral register and other matters about using information from other sources to improve the quality of information that you have or to create a new set of information. This makes sense, other people may already have done much of the work for you …
Propogation of information errors and the risks of using surrogate sources Read More »
The Irish Independent, the Irish Times and Silicon Republic have all carried coverage over the last days about TalkTalk, the CarphoneWarehouse fixed line subsidiary’s operation in Ireland (recently acquired from Tele2). According to Silicon Republic: “ Talk Talk has been ordered by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) and the Data Protection Commissioner to make a …
The real cost to business of poor quality Information Read More »
http://www.progressivedemocrats.ie/press_room/1812/ Senator Minihan makes a good deal of sense in his speech to the Seanad (Irish Senate, second house of our executive). His is the closest I have seen in the debates and coverage thus far to an apolitical statement of purpose. Also, he has touched on a number of potential root causes for the …
Something’s wrong – I find myself agreeing (in general) with a PD Read More »
I previously looked at the issue of the Electoral Register forms – the first point in the information chain that feeds the electoral register. On a whim this morning, I printed a copy out – my intention being to take a closer look at the structure of the form and its layout to see if …
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 …
Finger print scanning and Indelible Ink in the Electoral Process Read More »
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 …