data

  • Misleading Data

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    Understanding what metrics you’re tracking and what they actually mean is vital to preventing catastrophic business mistakes.

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  • 1Password: Better and Worse for Personal Data Security

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    Ever since I was a victim of digital identity theft in college, I’ve kept a keen eye on data security.  I use long passwords that mix case, numbers, and punctuation.  I impose ridiculous must-change-passwords-every-6-months rules on myself.  And I never, ever write my passwords down for others to see.  But still, I feel like things

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  • Data versus Meaning

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    At a conference last week, I was subjected to all kinds of talks on data, data integrity, data storage, data in the cloud, and data-centered design patterns.  One speaker summed things up perfectly: If you make the center of your world data, then everything else becomes easy. This got me thinking.  From a computer-centric viewpoint it all

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