Data quality

Take a standard 52 deck of cards and draw two cards. Can you find something in common about these two cards? ...

The first writings of human beings were not stories, they were spreadsheets. The oldest marks of writing we can find concern accounting. And soon enough, spreadsheets became the main way of representing it. The tablet Plimpton 322, from -1800 (source wikipedia) Humankind created at the same time its most disastrous invention: spreadsheet errors! ...

When doing inspections, the worst case scenario is to have to redo an inspection because the data acquired is not good enough to do an assessment. To check the quality of the data we process, we have built five metrics to have an objective and measurable point of view on the quality of the data and onsite acquisition work. ...