Category: DataQuality
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Duplicate Contacts – Where do they come from? (Or: McFly, you’re a slacker)
When dealing with data quality issues such as duplicates, the question people usually focus on is “how do I get rid of the duplicate records?” While this is important, this does not remove the cause of the problem and usually leads to ongoing or recurring cleaning efforts. Therefore, if you really want to resolve a…
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Low Data Quality in your iPhone Address Book – Why care?
As with all data quality issues, it is important to understand the consequences of a low quality address book. Too often this discussion is skipped, resulting in only half-hearted efforts of cleaning up and quickly slipping back into old habits. Here are a few scenarios that show the impact of low data quality in your…
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Duplicates in Address Book: Some Progress on my next iPhone App
After trying out a few things during my last train rides to my consulting engagement, my next iPhone app is slowly taking shape. Development progress Here is a very rough, “in work” screenshot of what I have for now (using some test data): Each cell in the TableView represents the contacts in the address book.…
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Idea for my next iPhone App: Duplicates in your Address Book
My Tax App “SmarterSteuer” has been in the iTunes App Store for almost a month now. Of course, the sales are not even remotely close to allow me to quit my day job – at 1.59€ and about 25 sold apps I haven’t even recovered the cost for my membership in the Apple development program.…
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Looking for duplicates: Results of a simple algorithm
As a little side project, I’ve been working on analyzing the finishing times in Ironman Triathlons. (If you’re interested, please head over to my Triathlon Rating site. This involves getting race results and trying to match the athlete names in order to figure out different results from the same athlete. Finding Candidates In a first,…