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Data Quality Mad Libs

Mad Lib

Jim Harris has started a Data Quality Mad Lib series over at OCDQ Blog. I decided instead of leaving my version of the Mad Lib in his comment section to share it with everyone here.

In case you have forgotten how a Mad Lib works, it is a short story or phrase with several key words or phrases missing. Often you are asked to provide the missing items ahead of time before you see the phrase or short story. This increases the chances that the result is purely random and often amusing to read.

For Jim's Mad Lib he asked for the following to be provided by his readers:

• an adjective - unflattering
• a noun - a data warehouse
• a verb - propogates
• a noun or phrase - multiple versions of the truth
• a phrase - ineffectively managing the master data produced by