Ejemplos de uso de data quality
1. GAVI performs "data quality audits" that test the validity of official counts by following the data trail in four health districts per country.
2. In March, the Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged it violated the Data Quality Act of 2000 by issuing documents based on faulty assumptions about the habitat of Florida‘s endangered panthers.
3. One GAO study, " Efforts to Help Reduce Adverse Effects on the Public," made no recommendations regarding the list‘s maintenance –– a very rare occurrence for GAO audits –– "because agencies have ongoing initiatives to improve data quality, reduce the number of misidentifications or mitigate their effects, and enhance redress efforts." A recent example is the Terrorist Encounter Review Process.
4. The political will, however, is there on the part of these countries, which may begin submitting data in the foreseeable future. «A total of '2 countries are currently submitting monthly data for this highly–acclaimed initiative,» said Ambassador Arne Walther, secretary general of the International Energy Forum (IEF). «The challenge is now to include more countries, reduce delay in data submissions and enhance data quality despite the fact that the coverage and reliability of data is at a reasonable level, even today,» said the IEF chief, here Sunday night.
5. Tom Golden, spokesman for data company Informatica Corporation which carried out the survey, said: ‘Local councils are already buckling under the amount of waste caused by unaddressed junk mail. ‘This study shows that poor data quality and the amount of incorrectly targeted direct mail is adding to the problem. ‘At the very least, companies need to get name and address details correct or potentially alienate customers – which flies in the face of their objective to attract people to their brand. ‘What‘s worse for companies is that inaccurate data produces irrelevant mail that winds up straight in the bin, equating to an immediate loss of a much–needed marketing budget.‘ Informatica said firms were sending mail to ‘people that have passed away‘, causing much stress to their families, and people who had moved to a different address.