Your company is growing and you’re adding new employees fairly regularly. How streamlined is your process? Often times, new employees get tossed into the mix to fend for themselves and this can be a detriment to them getting up to speed in a timely manner. Don’t you want your newbie to be a productive member …
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We like to harp on data errors by humans, but sometimes the opposite is true too. Here are 6 human errors by Star Trek‘s Data. 6. Succumbing to Emotions This is about as human an error as it gets. In episode “Brothers,” Data got a hardware upgrade [Ed. note: downgrade?] from Dr. Soong in the form of …
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Do you remember that terrible movie with Ashton Kutcher in it? Sorry, do we need to be more specific? We’re referring to this one: The movie was based on the popular “Butterfly Effect” theory, which has become the other pop-culture digestible form of Chaos Theory from a figure NOT mauled by a T-Rex. The theory you …
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The Y2K problem was bad enough. What about Y10K when we graduate from 4-digit years? Hopefully, 8,000 years from now, we’ll have evolved into higher beings who don’t have to worry about electronics turning on us a la the Simpsons’ Halloween special a decade ago. Meanwhile, here’s an example of why no one is safe: …
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In this recent release from MarketWire (via MarketWatch), a Kalido (a provider of business-driven data governance solutions) survey is mentioned that included a startling statistic: “75% of respondents said they have no means to raise issues with bad data they encounter in their day to day jobs.” Wait, What? Having bad data is bad enough. …
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