Several years ago, I was sitting at a conference table with a group of federal employees to discuss their data analytics and reporting requirements. The reports we were building were part of a data warehouse with more than 100 valid measurements. “What
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Well, it’s November and with the air politically charged, we all know what that means. Yup, it’s time for companies to start prepping data in time for the new year. And there’s a lot of data, isn’t there? According to one estimate,
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
I’m a news junkie, and I recently bought a news application for my smartphone. This app was different than others I had seen in that it used technology that aggregated news feeds, pulling in top headlines not just from one source, but
“I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” — E.J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic, in 1910 “BP Exploration & Production Inc. does not propose to utilize new techniques or unusual
Jim Harris recently blogged The Road of Collaboration in which he makes a case for business and technology sides of a company to come together and walk the middle road towards greater collaboration. Although this joining of forces would be an optimal
IT projects cannot be conducted as a town-hall democracy in which every individual ranging from the highest ranking executive to the lowest menial laborer gets his or her say in the final product. At the opposite extreme, projects should not be funded