by Oz du Soleil | Jun 19, 2014 | Data Integrity
This week, Chris Penn’s blogpost was about “When Bad Data Can Be Okay.” I agree with everything he says about distinguishing between data that’s predictably wrong and still useful just plain unreliable and not useful mysterious but you might be...
by Oz du Soleil | Jan 25, 2013 | Data Integrity, Spreadsheet Development, Spreadsheet Tidiness
In preparation for teaching a workshop on Excel Dashboards & Reports, I’m thinking about what needs to be covered. Several months ago, Mynda Treacy of My Online Training Hub provided an excellent guest post on Excel reporting. (Going forward, I use...
by Oz du Soleil | Sep 25, 2012 | Data Integrity, Data Management
Today, 25 September, is my birthday and this reminds me of something: Data Collection Efforts That Invite Crap Data Crap data leads to questionable analysis, bad business decisions, and even contempt of your own customers because they’re the ones who fed you...