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I just love Lora Cecere


I confess. I just love Lora Cecere. I’ve been her client; she’s been my boss, and I call her a trusted friend and advisor. We’ve enjoyed conversations and exchanged ideas in hallways, convention centers, airports, taxi cabs, hotel bars and many restaurants across the country and gabfests by phone. One of my absolute favorite Lora [...]

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Work Done by a Spring

Physics of Information Management: Work Done by a Spring


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The Pendulum

Physics of Information Management: The Pendulum


   

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Kill the mouse, Daddy!


Those were the words my son used a few years ago when he spotted a baby mouse limping across our kitchen floor. It was so lame I could pick it up and put it outside, but the visceral reaction he had was the same one many of us have to bad data. You see, I [...]

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The Biggest Philosophical Debate in Data Management


In a recent webcast I did with Jim Harris, he talked about two views of data quality: provider centric and consumer centric. According to the provider centric view, data are just digital representations of real world things. If the representations are accurate, then you can use them for anything. In other words, data is good as [...]

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