Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-09-03
[Post from Infoglide] Reference Linking Methods - Part 4
“In the direct matching, transitive linking, and association analysis methods discussed in previous posts, the evidence for establishing a link comes from the references themselves, either as attribute values or relationships with other references. A link created in this way is also called an inferred link. But in almost any ER context, some pairs of equivalent references (i.e. that refer to the same entity) will have insufficient evidence available in the references themselves to make that determination, thereby leaving them as unlinked false negatives.”
Liliendahl on Data Quality: Out of Facebook
“Doing ‘Social Master Data Management’ will become an integrated part of customer master data management offering both opportunities for approaching a ’single version of the truth’ and some challenges in doing so. Of course privacy is a big issue.”
CRN: SMB Cloud Spending To Approach $100 Billion By 2014
“Total cloud-related information and communications technology spending among SMBs globally surpassed $52 billion in 2009, representing just 6 percent of total worldwide SMB ICT spending. But AMI predicts that that will nearly double over a five-year period.”
“According to court documents, between Jan. 1, 2004 and Dec. 31, 2008, Lemine, owner of Sorrento Grocery in Sorrento, Fla., cashed more than $4 million in checks from a local construction company in return for a fee of between 1 and 1.5 percent of the checks’ face value. He did so knowing that the owners of the construction company were attempting by cashing the checks through the grocery to conceal their employment of illegal aliens, avoid paying worker’s compensation and employment taxes, and hide income from state and federal tax officials.”
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