Is Open Data About You? Perhaps more than you think, and the potential harm from wrong/stale open data could damage your reputation and adversely affect you financially. Whether it is the incredible growth of sensor data captured about our internet behavior, the consequences of unintended open data joins, or the massive increase in data breaches, you […]
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So Open by Default is a Self-Governing Commons. What does that mean, exactly? Recently, I had the opportunity to speak with Steve Adler of IBM about Open by Default, the successor organization to the InfoGov community. Steve, IBM’s data strategist, founded InfoGov. I asked him how he planned to take a great success like InfoGov
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Trust your numbers, but never trust your gut. Always trust your numbers. Never trust your gut. Those are the words of Daniel Kahneman, the economics Nobel laureate. In an video interview series with Inc. Magazine’s Editor in Chief, Eric Schurenberg, Kahneman tells us that experts tend to be overconfident, and make predictions without enough information. We are
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Have you Prepared your Data Quality Baseline? Has your organization planned a data quality initiative for 2014? If so, have you prepared your 2013 data quality baseline? Data quality initiatives are great if they produce measurable results. How do you measure the results of a data quality initiative? By preparing a data quality baseline before
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Information Confidence or Data Credibility? Data Credibility or Information Confidence, take your pick. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that Thomas C. Redman, Ph.D. has written a timely article on data credibility, now available in the December 2013 Harvard Business Review (HBR). If you have an online subscription, you can read it here. Also have
What does Measuring Information Confidence Mean to You? When you read the phrase “Measuring Information Confidence”, what does your gut tell you? Are you thinking about what gives you confidence in the information you use for decision-making? Could you quantify your thoughts? Are you considering the fundamental elements of data quality, like whether information is
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