The late Peter Falk played Lieutenant Columbo, the iconic television detective from the 1970s. The cigar-smoking, trench-coat wearing Columbo was shabby and unassuming and his murder suspects – usually the rich and powerful living in Los Angeles– would initially judge the book
Author: JGoldfed
Entity resolution requires strategy, particularly in weeding out duplicate records stored within the same data system. The very nature of finding these duplicates requires commonality among certain attributes like full names, addresses, birth dates and gender. For the most part, these attributes
I recently read an interesting article by Steven Adler that proposes Freedom of Information be included as part of basic human rights. Freedom of Information, in this definition, means that governments around the world should make their information freely available to the
We have bugs. No, not the software coding kind, but the creeping six-legged variety; the kind you find in your bathtub as you enter for the morning shower. Thankfully, we don’t have many of them yet, but with spring already here, it’s
Our lives are filled with distractions. There are the business distractions that come in the form of urgent emails just as we began working on the project we’ve been trying to complete for a week, and there are the inevitable personal distractions
No data system is immune from quality issues. At some point, a human being will invariably make a mistake with a record–be it a typo or a coding error–and a bit of corrupted data will make it into the system. What happens
We bought a puppy. We named her Magnolia, but decided to use the name “Maggie” for short. As a formerly popular comedian once said, “”Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.” I’ve
February 16th 2011 was the final night of the Man vs. Machine Grand Challenge in which the IBM supercomputer, Watson, played the trivia game Jeopardy against two of its all-time champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson bested its competition, with the
I am a child from the Age of Irony that period of time defined by cynicism, emotional detachment, and black comedy. My generation–Gen-X–has experienced one economic upheaval after another, first within the dot.com boom and bust of the 90s and then the
The “F-identity”, as described by Rich Murnane, is the concept of using a social networking account like Facebook to share important tidbits of personal data to other authorized sites and users. In this manner, a person would no longer need to enter