Fudge Sunday - M&M's, Moose, and Management Meditations

This week we take a look at data quality, testing, and management lore.

The topics in this issue of the newsletter will be wordplay on familiar song titles, lyrics, sayings, and connect back to the music industry legend of brown M&M’s, the automotive industry Moose Test, and a management paradox. So, stay with me because it’s not as random as it might sound.

Next, let’s take a quick look at a prediction reinforcement sighting from a prior Fudge Sunday.

Now, let’s take a look at data quality, testing, and management lore.

One of the interesting elements from the world of data science is the notion of data quality. Almost 10 years ago the so-called six attributes were captured in works from the DAMA UK in the Great Data Debate at the release of DAMA UK White Paper on Data Quality Dimensions which introduced (alphabetically):

But what is… accuracy and even if accurate is completeness complete?

If you’ve driven across the rural USA in places closer to agriculture you might have seen cattle crossing signs or warnings horses and such. The next sign you’ll see if you keep driving towards nature is deer crossing, and in the North will likely be a very big deer crossing sign – Moose crossing sign (aka Alces americanus).

Of course, warning signs are not the same as a behavior shaping constraint. So, could there be a mitigation or way to assist when encountering a sudden obstacle?

When I was just starting out in my career, I attended training where I learned about the perils of hot Texas weather, random suggestions, the assumed popularity of ice cream, groupthink, and the compounding effects of failures in effective planning.

Source: wikipedia.org

If that was a treat – you are in luck. YouTube has a collection of yarns and stagecraft from Jerry B. Harvey.

Here’s one more for the proverbial road…

~2 hours of artful and educational storytelling. Enjoy!

In summary, when thinking about exponential data growth and the growing importance of that data, there is much more to consider. Perhaps one thing we need to consider is combining BMMaaS with an overlay of the Moose Test to move forward — all while acknowledging that there are those around us with boredom, temerity, conformity, and deadlines – including ourselves.

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