On Sep 19, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
I just stumbled across a
presentation [1][2] on slideshare that's quite relevant to
this conversation.
Motivated me to Google "video phone"... first shown in mid
1930s, 80 years ago.
An artistically talented team can say anything they want
to. No boundaries. Not limited to reality. Not limited to
the organizational politics & minefields.
I can easily put up a PowerPoint that says 2 + 2 = 5 and
someone's going to say "Awesome!" It's also nonsense.
I think of data as akin to this "equation" (not sure if
it's actually true, but there's enough substance to embrace
the story)... to double the speed of an airplane below the
speed of sound, you need to square the horsepower. To double
the speed above the speed of sound you need to cube the
horsepower.
With data, the faster we move, the more there is, the more
difficult it becomes to actually make sense of the data.
Since most organizations are still struggling with good
data management practices, what's the point in combining all
this dross?
When you link data, do you perform data profiling on every
data element? I suspect not. So you just assume that "42"
from Source A means the same as "42" from Source Z?
How is the tremendous volume of data actually vetted?
