Comments on: An Example of the World’s Data Crisis http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/12/03/an-example-of-the-worlds-data-crisis/ Digital Strategy Solutions, Change Management Leadership, Business Speaker, Payments Technology Convergence Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:11:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ed Kohlerhttp://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/12/03/an-example-of-the-worlds-data-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-3098 Ed Kohler Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:38:13 +0000 http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/12/03/an-example-of-the-worlds-data-crisis/#comment-3098 this is an interesting problem, but who has an incentive to solve it? Businesses with little incremental costs associated with the mailings? The USPS, who profits from the mailings? Data is imperfect, and more imperfect data is generated every day on the web and in aging databases. I think companies that can work with imperfect data can solve problems without solving the dirty data problem itself. Web search engine who make sense of the web are a good example of this. this is an interesting problem, but who has an incentive to solve it? Businesses with little incremental costs associated with the mailings? The USPS, who profits from the mailings?

Data is imperfect, and more imperfect data is generated every day on the web and in aging databases. I think companies that can work with imperfect data can solve problems without solving the dirty data problem itself. Web search engine who make sense of the web are a good example of this.

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