{"id":12411,"date":"2014-04-04T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:28:35","slug":"cartoon-what-chance-does-data-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/cartoon-what-chance-does-data-have.html","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: What Chance Does Data Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6566\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/strong-opinions.jpg?resize=800%2C607&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"strong opinions\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" \/>What chance does data have when faced with strong opinions?!<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this isn&#8217;t really a joke &#8212; every day, information that has cost millions of dollars to collect and analyze is ignored by folks who think that they simply &#8220;know&#8221; better (a corporate equivalent of all those partisan politicians and voters that don&#8217;t think mere facts should get in the way of their most heartfelt convictions&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>What can you do about it? Help the organization develop an information culture\u00a0and pay particular attention to anything that gets in the way of people believing your data &#8212; in particular, data governance, which is becoming even more important in a <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/interview-the-need-for-big-data-governance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big data era.<\/a>\u00a0(Want to hear a fun example of data quality? <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/why_data_quality_is_important.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Try this post<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What chance does data have when faced with strong opinions?! Some tips&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[100,160,204,226,327,342,507,792,1087],"class_list":["post-12411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","tag-analytics","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-cartoon","tag-data","tag-data-quality","tag-fun","tag-opinion","tag-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/strong-opinions-1024x778-2.jpg?fit=1024%2C778&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20552,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions\/20552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}