Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-04-03
[Post from Infoglide] Unobtrusive Measures and Identity Resolution
“For decades, researchers in the social sciences have used “unobtrusive measures” as defined originally in a 1966 book by Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, and Sechrest. The idea is to collect and analyze data without disturbing the subjects of the study. For example, instead of surveying subjects to find out how many candy bars they eat each day, the subjects’ garbage is searched and the number of candy wrappers is tallied.”
Information Management: TIBCO Software Acquires Netrics
“Gartner Research VP Andrew White highlighted the continued frenzy of acquisitions in the master data management space in a blog on the latest acquisition. ‘… this new acquisition highlights the dwindling set of data quality tools for master data management (and other interested) vendors to partner with, and/or acquire,’ White wrote. ‘The acquisition seems logical, and good, for packaged MDM (TIBCO offers one) though; but as the music dies down, who will be left standing without a partner…’”
“The Ventura County District Attorney’s office recently arraigned the owners, along with the company’s secretary, on five felony counts of insurance premium fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. According to authorities, the three lied to their insurer to save an estimated $500,000, making it appear their employees were more experienced than they actually were.”
SmartDataCollective: MDM Can Challenge Traditional Development Paradigms
“Dealing with imperfect data has traditionally been unacceptable because it slowed down processing; ignoring it or returning an error was a best practice. The difference about MDM development is the focus on data content (and value-based) processing. The whole purpose MDM is to deal with all data, including the unacceptable stuff. It assumes that the data is good enough.”
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