Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-07-24
[Post from Infoglide] Entity Resolution as Data Mining
“In my last post, I suggested that entity resolution in the broadest sense (“Big ER”) really encompasses three activities. The first is locating and collecting entity references from unstructured sources (entity extraction), the second is resolving and merging references to the same entity (“Little ER”), and the third is analyzing associations among entities. Not every ER process involves all three activities.”
BeyeNETWORK: Some Perspectives on Quality
[Bill Inmon] “There are then very legitimate circumstances where incorrect data is best left in the database or data warehouse. Stated differently, there is no circumstance where correcting data or not correcting data is the right thing to do. In order to determine which approach is proper, the context of the corrections has to be known. Only then can it be determined whether correcting errors is the proper thing to do.”
“To me, fusion centers are a fine example of Darwinian logic in homeland security. There was no comprehensive national plan to create fusion centers. In original intent, Founding-Fathers-federalism fashion, states and cities decided they were not getting the intelligence they wanted. Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, New York and a handful of other jurisdictions took responsibility for processing - or “fusing” - their own intelligence.”
ITBusinessEdge: Master Data Management and the CIO’s Strategic Plan
“If we look at MDM as a collection of techniques providing enterprise-wide data requirements analysis and subsequent implementation of best practices in data management, then the savvy IT manager might cherry-pick from the tools offered by vendors to provide the optimal solution that unifies the view of critical data concepts while satisfying the data quality requirements imposed by a horizontal information solution.”
I, Cringely: Medical Records R Us
“So medical records are an area where IT could make us healthier and, if done correctly, ought to save lots of money, too. What we need is some form of centralized medical record keeping that preserves patient privacy yet, at the same time, keeps us from shopping all over town for bogus Oxycontin prescriptions.”
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