I'm hosting the January issue of the Carnival of Data Quality, with a theme of how we may change the world with (or of) data quality in 2008.
We've received some good submissions with wide-reaching implications for society. (THANKS!) I'd like to encourage us to think about the little changes as well. For example:
A low-tech data quality initiative: The "Sign your Site" campaign. The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons recommends the surgeon mark the surgery location before the operation to avoid wrong-site surgeries. Seems like a pretty straightforward approach to managing what is essentially a real-time information quality issue. (Sadly, studies report only half the surgeons regularly take this precaution.) Wrong-site surgery may not change the world at large, but it certainly impacts the world of that patient.
Thought-provokers that are in keeping with the theme:
- Where would you like to see the industry focus its efforts this year?
- What can we change in the way we approach data quality?
- How we make it easier/better for organizations' quality initiatives to be successful?
- How would any of these changes impact the world around us?
Submit articles to http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_2815.html by Friday, 1/25.
December's carnival is at the IQ Trainwrecks site. And of course, Vince McBurney deserves hosted the inaugural issue.
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