Reading How Africa WorksJoe Studwell

Studying Probabilistic record linkage Robin Linacre's write-up. The clearest account of Fellegi-Sunter I have found, and it is free. Apache Ossie The semantic interchange spec, formerly OSI. A common format for what a metric actually means, across tools. Synthetic data as a design problem Google's write-up on generating datasets from first principles rather than imitating a sample. Coverage, complexity and quality as separate dials.

Fact of the month

Entities do not exist in the information system. They exist in the real world. Information systems store references to entities, never the entities themselves. Sep 2026 · Something I keep coming back to. · all marginalia

Information Quality

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The generator is the dataset 23 September 2026
The name a system remembers 13 September 2026
What entity resolution actually is 1 August 2026