Any Advance on Soundex?
A lot has been written about “phonetic algorithms” since Soundex was created for the US Census in (I think) 1880, but the world seemed to stand fairly still until computer software started to implement name matching in the 70’s. The strange thing is that Soundex seems to have remained the de facto standard until well into the 90’s,…
Why is Data Quality So Hard?
If you take a good look around the master data management (MDM) industry, data quality is the buzz word of the day. Blog posts, surveys, analyst briefings, white papers and testimonials are filled with commentary on the importance of good data quality. What is the importance?
