A brilliant piece of research by #TheGuardian linking simple #DataQuality issues to the unmitigated shit show of US #Tariffs. Errors in bills of lading and shipping data might be one of the root causes of the stupidity. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revealed-how-trump-tariffs-slugged-norfolk-island-and-uninhabited-heard-and-mcdonald-islands

#IQTrainwreck

A great example of an #IQTrainwreck spotted in the wild by @privacat An overflow error in PhP reformats a commonly used fake phone number format to being an actual real phone number.
Worth remembering that "phone numbers" are just label identifiers for a circuit path end node in a network and perhaps shouldn't be handled as integers in your data model https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dallas-family-thrift-center-daily-wtf-poor-data-carey-lening-cdpp-bmy6e/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/16/excel_hell_comment/

#Excel #Hell II: If the sickness can't be fixed, it must be contained.
"Last week, the #Curse of Excel struck the health service – yet another botched #data transfer between #spreadsheets."

"All medical #diagnosticians work by identifying significant #deviations from good health; a sexy way to do this with an Excel-based process would be to #train an #AI with historical data and ask it to alert on deviation."
#IQtrainwreck #horror #spreadsheet #error @EuSpRIG

https://mastodon.ie/@Castlebridge/111223538802596560

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/excel_anesthetist_recruitment_blunder/

Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
Mangled mismatch of formats, macros, and VLOOKUP practice hits wannabe anesthetists

#Excel #Vlookup #IQTrainwreck
@EuSpRIG

#IQTrainWreck This is a doozy. Sloppy excel management plus a bug in a mass mailer tool causing headaches for medics in England https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/excel_anesthetist_recruitment_blunder/

Hi,

I spotted this article on The Journal:

UK air traffic services says fault was caused by flight data it received

https://jrnl.ie/6154515

It is another example of an #IQTrainWreck (based on what’s reported).

Raises questions about:

1) #DataQuality controls at input
2) #DataQuality controls on import/ingestion
3)Exception handling processes.
4)Recovery processes

However, in a high risk environment doing a “stop everything” action when unexpected happens is disruptive but necessary.

https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/i-cant-afford-this-and-i-wont-stand-for-it-new-bank-blunder-will-cost-homeowners-up-to-600-more-a-month-on-their-mortgages/a826147046.html
#DataQuality issues impact on people. This is another #IQTrainwreck from Ulster Bank but highlights how small data quality issues can have significant impacts on people.

https://mastodon.ie/@Castlebridge/110184593314965686 Sometimes it needs to be all about the #SmallData if you want to avoid #IQTrainwreck*

*#IQTrainWreck is a #DataQuality or #InformationQuality problem that causes an embarrassing but avoidable headline or results in significant impacts on people or organisations. I coined the term back in 2005. See http://iqtrainwrecks.info for some classic examples or check the hashtag over on the bird site as well.

https://www.businesspost.ie/article/up-to-35000-bank-of-ireland-customers-impacted-by-error-on-kbc-mortgage-transfers/ #IQTrainwreck A date error in the transfer of loans from one bank to another meant detail weren’t transferred to the CCR, potentially impacting customer’s ability to take out new loans. (At least this bank owned up to their error)

#IQTrainwreck Inaccuracies in flood risk data leave home owners struggling to get insurance. https://m.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/insurance/homeowners-denied-full-home-insurance-cover-due-to-flood-risk-fears-based-on-map-errors-42370985.html

Now: does this raise a #DataProtection issue about accuracy of data relating to an identifiable person and automated processing having a legal effect? (I think it does)

@gerrymcgovern if it's any consolation, ChatGPT models are not fed with corporate data, which is locked away. The Large Language Models suck in websites up to 2021. Other #IQTrainwreck professionals are wondering what they will.look like when their intake includes current sites, such as those populated by AI generated text as a means of leeching ad revenue.
However...

I wrote a thing on #LinkedIn today about the odd data and process #IQTrainwreck behaviours in @logitech’s logistics. 2 weeks waiting for the other package to drop on my keyboard and mouse order https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daraghobrien_digitaltransformation-habeuskeyboard-dataoutcomes-activity-7035492063701827584-SaB3

#IQTrainWreck #ExcelHell It appears an excel error resulted in Virginian schools now getting a lot less then they’d budgeted https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/01/31/virginia-schools-state-aid-error/

I wrote a thing for the company blog about the electricity overcharging kerfuffle in Ireland.. a #DataQuality error in a calculation resulted in households being overcharged to fund a subsidy to large energy consumers https://castlebridge.ie/insights/data-quality-a-bottom-line-cost-for-society/ #IQTrainwreck