Information Quality Blogs

Via Twitter we came across this tale of Information Quality fun and games from the South West of Ireland. Macroom is a popular tourist destination in Co. Cork. The local Town Council have invested in a portal website for the town Macroom.ie.  One of the boasts of Macroom is that is just 45 minutes away [...]

From Twitter we learn that CNN is reporting that NATO is combing Tripoli looking for Colonel Gadaffi (or any of the other variant spellings of that name). Unfortunately, if CNN are to be believed, NATO has just invaded another country to find the errant Colonel (Libya is a little further to the left people…) Of [...]

Via The Miami Herald comes a story that highlights a number of impacts of poor quality information in key processes. In Oklahoma, schools are placed on an “improvement list” if they fail to meet standards for two consecutive years. Once on the list the school show progress in improving standards for two years before they [...]

It was widely reported yesterday that students in Scotland who had signed up for SMS notification of their results had received them a day early, giving them a jump on their less technically minded compatriots and competitors and causing stress and distress to students, parents, educators, civil servants, and politicians. The Scottish Education Authorities began [...]

The Irish National Lottery had an embarrassment last week when their Bank Holiday promotion draw went awry. As part of a special draw for the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Lottery were offering a prize of a Jaguar XK convertible as an additional prize to the person who won the jackpot. Unfortunately, due to apparent [...]

We spotted this on Gawker.com. From my experience using Google Maps, it rings true (I recently was sent 15 miles out of my way on a trip in rural Ireland). It seems that Google Maps has plotted the location of a tourist attraction in New Jersey right at the end of a driveway to a [...]

The United States Government is being sued in a massive class-action suit representing Green Card applicants from over 30 countries which alleges that the United States unfairly denied 22,000 people a Green Card due to a computer blunder. This story is reported in the Irish Times and the Wall Street Journal. It is not in [...]

For a change (?) it is nice (?) to see stories about healthcare IQ Trainwrecks that don’t necessarily involve loss of life, injury, tears, or trauma. Today’s Irish Examiner newspaper carries a story of the financial impacts of poor quality data in healthcare administration. At a time when the budgets for delivery of healthcare in [...]