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RE: 3 Ways Technology is Making Tax Assessment Easier

Posted By Tom Gilligan 12-31-2019 10:09
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related to Patrick's post on how technology can simplify sales taxation calculations - A very timely article in today's Wall Street Journal highlights the impact of the June 2018 Supreme Court ruling on sales taxes for online retailers. The tax applications you mention go a long way to helping small ...

RE: Important Changes to Your StreetPro Delivery

Posted By Tom Gilligan 12-23-2019 15:41
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Your 1st 2 improvements, Dan, are good examples of increasing the interoperability of data products. Interoperability allows data users to bring together data products in unique and powerful ways. By adding the missing territories to StreetPro's coverage, now StreetPro can work together with other data ...

How might we prevent data entry problems?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 12-09-2019 12:03
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Data correctness problems are frequently related to the data entry step. Distracted, inattentive or overworked staff can make errors in their work. Their data entry software may lack real-time controls to prevent typos or real-time quality checks to validate the inputs. Good software would have thoughtfully ...

RE: Iron Viz 2019 Championship Recap

Posted By Tom Gilligan 12-06-2019 08:30
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@Briana Brown I like the bar map viz shown in Viz 1 and think thats a creative way to display (otherwise boring) tabular data spatially - seeing the data spatially allows you to spot regional trends that are otherwise obscured, and I think its something for any Data Product to consider delivering when ...

How to get up-and-running quickly with the World Premium POI Product

Posted By Tom Gilligan 12-04-2019 13:58
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Do you want to quickly get value from your World Premium Points of Interest product? If you're new to the product, the product can be challenging due to the data size (over 27 Million POIs for the United States for example) and each record contains 70 attribute fields. A good place to start is ...

How to improve your efficiency getting your products from the Software & Data Marketplace

Posted By Tom Gilligan 10-29-2019 09:52
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Want to improve your efficiency getting your products from the Pitney Bowes Software & Data Marketplace? If so, read on… As a refresher, the Software & Data Marketplace is your single source for all the Pitney Bowes data products. The Software and Data Marketplace - My Products tab - lets you ...

What's your best idea?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 10-11-2019 16:19
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Some of the best ideas for improving Data products come from passionate users of the products – and we need your ideas! The Pitney Bowes Software & Data Ideas Website is the best way to share your input. Here are 3 possible idea-starters for you to consider about the Data product you are using: ...

RE: Address Location Listings vs Consumer Data Listings

Posted By Tom Gilligan 10-09-2019 08:49
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another possibility Amy is that indeed they have a database of over 300 Million addresses, but the geography is larger than the USA (i.e. it includes other countries). If the geography is the USA, then your consumer database theory is a viable one, but I think they may have simply created a list ...

How might we reduce data regression?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 09-20-2019 15:05
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Are you responsible for Data content or quality? If so, perhaps you could help brainstorm how data producers/consumers can reduce Data Regression…I suggest 4 ways below, but I'd like to hear from the community so please share your thoughts below if you have creative ideas to share! Data Regression ...

RE: What about the Product Documentation?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 09-03-2019 07:55
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@Andrew Bell that's a great checklist for any Data Product - perhaps including a link to the appropriate Knowledge Community to encourage questions or suggestions about the product would further enhance the documentation. I'm interested to hear thoughts from the greater Data Community about their ...

RE: Are you a Helpful Data Partner?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 08-29-2019 16:16
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agreed wholeheartedly, Rahul. I especially like your inclusion of Unsecured / GDPR compliance which is an entirely new aspect of Data Quality to contend with. I think that is still overlooked and will need more vigilance by Data producers over the coming years. ------------------------------ Tom ...

RE: Data Products for U.S. Schools - Executive Summary!

Posted By Tom Gilligan 08-16-2019 16:23
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Hi @John Tagliaferro - do we capture only public school points or do we also deliver private school points (and their grounds) as well? Thanks Tom ------------------------------ Tom Gilligan Pitney Bowes Software, Inc. White River Junction, VT, USA ------------------------------

RE: Whats your favorite data attribute?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 08-07-2019 15:18
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@Colin Mattison - disputed territories are a fascinating aspect of mapping and I am constantly amazed at the number of disputed locations on the globe. The Falkland Islands (also known as Islas Malvinas in Argentina) are famous disputed territories, but surprisingly there are even disputed features ...

Are you a Helpful Data Partner?

Posted By Tom Gilligan 08-06-2019 14:46
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A Scout is Helpful; this is one of the 12 points of the Scout Law that I grew up learning, and I try to live by it (and the other 11 too). It sure is nice in business if your data partner (aka vendor, supplier) also is Helpful in your relationship and in your data quality improvement initiatives. ...

RE: It's Criminal

Posted By Tom Gilligan 07-29-2019 08:36
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Hi Andy - I could see CrimeIndex helping in 2 use cases: Routing engines for driving or walking routes could use it to determine which blockgroups to avoid routing through (the routing data provider could downgrade roads in those blockgroups for their through-routing) – I don't think the routing ...

RE: I love my map app!

Posted By Tom Gilligan 07-16-2019 13:14
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indeed @Colleen Reed - the recent outage of Europe's equivalent to GPS (Galileo) shows that something we take for granted now is actually quite complex and we are very dependent upon it. ------------------------------ Tom Gilligan Pitney Bowes Software, Inc. White River Junction, VT, USA -- ...

Solving an annoying problem of missing leading zeros

Posted By Tom Gilligan 07-15-2019 16:23
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A simple tutorial for Data Geeks who get stymied by the USPS's desire to put leading zeros on US Postal Codes (my zipcode of 03766 gets conveniently converted to 3766 if I am not careful in Excel). Our friends at Aggdata have a simple guide to solving this. Article is here: Adding Zeroes Back to ...

RE: The wonderful world of Points of Interest (POI)

Posted By Tom Gilligan 07-15-2019 16:16
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POIs are incredibly challenging - just this weekend I read about yet another chain of retail stores going out of business (Charming Charlie) - its not easy to keep up with all the changes even if you have a lot of staff and funding...another article on CNBC lists the scary tally for chain closings in ...

RE: It's all in the name

Posted By Tom Gilligan 07-03-2019 12:39
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Hi Andy - in light of our celebration of American independence, there is a nice list of patriotic cities @ https://www.nlc.org/patriotic-sounding-city-names: There are thirty-one places nationwide with "liberty" in their names. The most populous is Liberty, Missouri with 29,581 residents. ...

RE: Free data sources

Posted By Tom Gilligan 06-25-2019 07:55
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excellent analogy @Ray Roberts-York! ------------------------------ Tom Gilligan Pitney Bowes Software, Inc. White River Junction, VT, USA ------------------------------

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