Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-04-03
[Post from Infoglide] Secure Flight and Identity Resolution
“Most of the time we’re just heads down doing our job of providing identity resolution solutions for our customers. But this is one of those weeks at Infoglide when we appreciate the opportunities we’ve had to make a difference. TSA announced that the Secure Flight Program has begun vetting passengers.”
[Post from Infoglide] TDWI Interview: Identity Resolution Reveals
“In a comprehensive discussion, Doug Wood of Infoglide Software spoke about an area of confusion that exists when people discuss identity resolution. He pointed out that the term is sometimes misapplied to describe software that performs data matching alone.”
data quality PRO: Identifying Duplicate Customers (Part 2)
[Jim Harris] “False negatives can be caused when the greater concern about false positives motivates a cautious approach to duplicate identification. This leads many projects to adopt a strategy allowing only exact matches. Therefore, let’s begin by looking for duplicates where the exact same information is repeated on multiple records – meaning where all attributes are populated and have the same value…”
TMCnet.com: Workers’ comp fraud rising: Task force to make unannounced visits
“‘The theory is that in a difficult economic climate, crime tends to go up as does fraud. People who aren’t otherwise motivated to be dishonest may follow that path,’ said Maureen O’Connell deputy district attorney with the fraud unit. The unit has seen a marked increase in workers’ compensation fraud over the past year and has had to double the fraud unit’s staff to handle the volume, she said.”
data quality PRO: External Reference Data - An Overview
“My guess is that exploiting external reference data as an important element in achieving optimal data quality will increase heavily in the following years, and cloud computing will be a main driver.”
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