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Dilbert, Data Quality, Rabbits, and #FollowFriday

JimHarris
Last updated: 2010/08/13 at 8:00 AM
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All data quality issues are caused by rabbitsReally great non-rabbits to follow on Twitter

For truly comic relief, there is perhaps no better resource than Scott Adams and the Dilbert comic strip. 

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Special thanks to Jill Wanless (aka @sheezaredhead) for tweeting this recent Dilbert comic strip, which perfectly complements one of the central themes of this blog post.

 

All data quality issues are caused by rabbits

Since this recent tweet of mine understandably caused a little bit of confusion in the Twitterverse, let me attempt to explain. 

In my recent blog post Who Framed Data Entry?, I investigated that triangle of trouble otherwise known as data, data entry, and data quality, where I explained that although high quality data can be a very powerful thing, since it’s a corporate asset that serves as a solid foundation for business success, sometimes in life, when making a critical business decision, what appears to be bad data is the only data we have—and one of the most commonly cited root causes of bad data is the data entered by people.

However, as my good friend Phil Simon facetiously commented, “there’s no such thing as a people-related data quality issue.”

And, as always, Phil is right.  All data quality issues are caused—not by people—but instead, by one of the following two rabbits:

Roger Rabbit
Roger Rabbit

Harvey Rabbit
Harvey Rabbit

Roger is the data quality trickster with the overactive sense of humor, which can easily handcuff a data quality initiative because he’s always joking around, he always talking or tweeting or blogging or surfing the web.  Roger seems like he’s always distracted.  He never seems focused on what he’s supposed to be doing.  He never seems to take anything about data quality seriously at all. 

Well, I guess th-th-th-that’s all to be expected folks—after all, Roger is a cartoon rabbit, and you know how looney ‘toons can be.

As for Harvey, well, he’s a rabbit of few words, but he takes data quality seriously—he’s a bit of a perfectionist about it, actually.  Harvey is also a giant invisible rabbit who is six feet tall—well, six feet, three and a half inches tall, to be complete and accurate.

Harvey and I sit in bars . . . have a drink or two . . . play the jukebox.  And soon, all the other so-called data quality practitioners turn toward us and smile.  And they’re saying, “We don’t know anything about your data, mister, but you’re a very nice fella.” 

Harvey and I warm ourselves in these golden moments.  We’ve entered a bar as lonely strangers without any friends . . . but then we have new friends . . . and they sit with us . . . and they drink with us . . . and they talk to us about their data quality problems. 

They tell us about big terrible things they’ve done to data and big wonderful things they’ll do with their new data quality tools. 

They tell us all about their data hopes and their data regrets, and they tell us all about their golden copies and their data defects.  All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a data quality discussion at a bar.  And then I introduce them to Harvey . . . and he’s bigger and grander than anything that anybody’s data quality tool has ever done for me or my data.

And when they leave . . . they leave impressed.  Now, it’s true . . . yes, it’s true that the same people seldom come back, but that’s just data quality envy . . . there’s a little bit of data quality envy in even the very best of us so-called data quality practitioners.

Well, thank you Harvey!  I always enjoy your company too. 

But, you know Harvey, maybe Roger has a point after all.  Maybe the most important thing is to always maintain our sense of humor about data quality.  Like Roger always says—yes, Harvey, Roger always says because Roger never shuts up—Roger says:

“A laugh can be a very powerful thing.  Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.”

Really great non-rabbits to follow on Twitter

Since this blog post was published on a Friday, which for Twitter users like me means it’s FollowFriday, I would like to conclude by providing a brief list of some really great non-rabbits to follow on Twitter.

Although by no means a comprehensive list, and listed in no particular order whatsoever, here are some great tweeps, and especially if you are interested in Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management, and Business Intelligence:

  • Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen – @hlsdk
  • Dylan Jones – @DataQualityPro
  • Phil Simon – @PhilSimon
  • Jill Wanless – @sheezaredhead
  • Datamartist – @Datamartist
  • Julian Schwarzenbach – @jschwa1
  • Rich Murnane – @murnane
  • Ken O’Connor – @KenOConnorData
  • Graham Rhind – @GrahamRhind
  • Augusto Albeghi – @Stray__Cat
  • Jacqueline Roberts – @JackieMRoberts
  • Terri Rylander – @BIMarcom
  • Garnie Bolling – @GarnieBolling
  • William Sharp – @dqchronicle
  • Beth Breidenbach – @bbreidenbach
  • Jill Dyché – @JillDyche
  • Rob Paller – @RobPaller
  • Baseline Consulting – @BaselineConsult
  • Marty Moseley – @wmmarty
  • Initiate, an IBM Company – @Initiate
  • DataFlux, a SAS Company – @DataFlux
  • Informatica – @InformaticaCorp
  • Steve Sarsfield – @SteveSarsfield
  • Talend – @Talend
  • Winston Chen – @WinstonChen
  • Kalido – @Kalido
  • Daragh O Brien – @daraghobrien
  • IAIDQ – @IAIDQ
  • Utopia, Inc. – @UtopiaInc
  • Experian QAS – @Experian_QAS
  • Pervasive Software – @DataIntegrate
  • SmartData Collective – @SmartDataCo
  • Dan Power – @dan_power
  • David Loshin – @DavidLoshin
  • Merv Adrian – @merv
  • Robert Karel – @rbkarel
  • Forrester Research – @forrester
  • Ted Friedman – @GartnerTedF
  • Gartner Research – @Gartner_inc
  • Neil Raden – @NeilRaden
  • Loraine Lawson – @LoraineLawson
  • Sarah Burnett – @SarahBurnett
  • Peter Thomas – @PeterJThomas
  • Corinna Martinez – @Futureratti
  • Ted Louie – @TedLouie
  • Phil Wright – @faropress
  • Karen Lopez – @datachick
  • Nick Giuliano – @Nick_Giuliano
  • Mark Stacey – @MarkGStacey
  • John Owens – @JohnIMM

 

PLEASE NOTE: No offense is intended to any of my tweeps not listed above.  However, if you feel that I have made a glaring omission of an obviously Twitterific Tweep, then please feel free to post a comment below and add them to the list.  Thanks!

I hope that everyone has a great FollowFriday and an even greater weekend.  See you all around the Twittersphere.

 

 

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JimHarris August 13, 2010
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