The permanence of data

A number of recent events have lead me to consider a little bit more about the permanence of data. Is data a permanent or a temporary thing?

New species in the Data Zoo–The PoD

Over a period of time we have created a popular series of blog posts with a collective title of the Data Zoo which explore how people’s behaviours towards data can impact the quality and integrity of data.

One of the people I have worked with for a few years, Martin T, suggested a new species should be added to the Data Zoo – the PoD or Prophet of Doom.

Want to find out more about the PoD? Then read on…

Do your Data Quality Heroes know who they are?

If you are a data steward (or similar) tasked with improving the quality of your organisations data, then you will be reliant on many people to help improve your data quality who will often be outside your direct team. Above all, you may have people who have more beneficial impact on data quality than their peers.

These are your Data Quality Heroes,but do they know they are heroes?

Rage in the data cage

Many of you will be familiar with our popular series of blog posts and White Paper on the Data Zoo which explores a number of generic behaviours people exhibit towards data.

This post explores the effects on data behaviours when people are put into different teams (cages).

Normalisation of data deviance

The term ‘normalisation of deviance’ refers to situations where employees become accustomed to deviation from standards/designs in engineering and industrial situations without recognising that these can be precursor events to major incidents.

This was a contributory factor in the loss of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles, the Buncefield explosion, the loss of an RAF Nimrod MR2 and many other major incidents.

Can normalisation of deviance occur with data?