Data Quality at a Party

DATA QUALITY LOSSY | LOSSLESS SOMEONE WHO ONCE SAW THE DATA DESCRIBING IT AT A PARTY BLOOM FILTER HASH TABLE JPEG, GIF, MPEG PNG, ZIP, TIFF, WAV, RAW DATA RAW DATA + PARITY BITS FOR ERROR DETECTION RAW DATA + PARITY BITS FOR ERROR CORRECTION BETTER DATA

A hand-drawn diagram ranks different kinds of data processing along a “data quality” spectrum, from lossy formats and probabilistic structures to lossless data and error-correcting parity bits. The joke personifies someone who once saw the data describing it at a party: they provide increasingly technical and overconfident descriptions, ending with “better data.” It is used as a reaction to excessive technical detail or a pedantic explanation. EN: A hand-drawn diagram ranks different kinds of data processing along a “data quality” spectrum, from lossy formats and probabilistic structures to lossless data and error-correcting parity bits. The joke personifies someone who once saw the data describing it at a party: they provide increasingly technical and overconfident descriptions, ending with “better data.” It is used as a reaction to excessive technical detail or a pedantic explanation.

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