During a family visit to a local pumpkin patch (Uesugi Farms) this fall, I was looking for a gas station. The corner, just across from the Farm (yellow arrow below), was identified as a gas station on my car's GPS, but that was just a dirt parking lot. Google's satellite imagery shows this as well in the image below. There was, however, a Valero gas station just down the street, but even that didn't show up in Google's list of local gas stations (blue arrow).
If you are anything like me, you love a good cup of coffee/tea and your contribution to Starbucks’ last quarter (Q1FY17) report of $4 Billion USD net revenues1 is more than you want to tell your spouse. So let me give you a few excuses to visit your local Starbucks in order to study some examples of data quality.
"For the data industry, standardized definitions of data quality dimensions are needed, just as other professions, such as accounting have agreed-upon concepts and terms like “chart of accounts”." --Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Consulting
