Video: Oh, the Data You’ll Show!
In May, I wrote a Dr. Seuss style blog post called Oh, the Data You’ll Show! inspired by the great…
“Some is not a number and soon is not a time”
In a true story that I recently read in the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard…
Data Quality doesn’t matter (much)!
While touring in New Zealand to talk about my new book, I had the opportunity to do an interview on…
The Tooth Fairy of Data Quality
The 2010 movie Tooth Fairy was a box office bust—and deservedly so for obvious reasons. The studio executives couldn’t handle…
Why Making a Rational Argument to Power Can Fail…
Have you ever found a surprising insight through analysis about your business, prepared a set of slides with a solid argument, presented…
Scrum Screwed Up
This was the inaugural cartoon on Implementing Scrum by Michael Vizdos and Tony Clark, which does a great job of…
Dilbert, Data Quality, Rabbits, and #FollowFriday
For truly comic relief, there is perhaps no better resource than Scott Adams and the Dilbert comic strip. Special thanks…
Worthy Data Quality Whitepapers (Part 3)
In my April 2009 blog post Data Quality Whitepapers are Worthless, I called for data quality whitepapers worth reading. This…
A Sunday’s Worth of Numbers: Data Analytics on the Airwaves
Three intriguing data analytics-related stories turned up recently on two radio shows, on one Sunday. Honestly—what are the odds? First,…
Which came first, the Data Quality Tool or the Business Need?
This recent tweet by Andy Bitterer of Gartner Research (and ANALYSTerical) sparked an interesting online discussion, which was vaguely reminiscent…
