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Paramedic quits after being sent to the wrong cityParamedics were ready to break into a Mackay home to treat a suspected heart attack victim when they learned the emergency was actually in Brisbane(August 24, 2009)
Man dies as ambos lose wayLorraine XXXXXX watched her husband die while a misdirected ambulance took 45 minutes to find their Mackay home (August 24, 2009)
Widow sues after partner dies as paramedics search A heartbroken Brisbane mother has launched legal action over the death of her partner after paramedics took an hour to find him (January 31, 2009)
*Mainframe based systems
*Little or no validation
*Difficult and time consuming to find and analyse information
*Over 230 databases converted and consolidated
*5 years on ………………. the journey continues
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Exact Name
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Natural Name variation
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Typographical errors
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Multiple typographical errors
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Extra name
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Compound errors
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Gender match
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Date of Birth match
Exact name matchJohn Frederick WARD 16/10/1950 MaleJohn Frederick WARD 16/10/1950 Male
Natural Name VariationDamian Craig BARKER 23/04/1956 MaleDamien Craig BARKER 23/04/1956 Male
Typographical ErrorsAngus Frances ADAMS 05/07/1976
MaleAnges Francis ADAMS 05/07/1976 Male
Extra NameRaymond Phillip JOHNS 15/12/1980
MaleRaymond JOHNS 15/12/1980 Male
Compound ErrorsNola Anne AULTRAM 09/07/1987 FemaleNola ALTRAM 09/07/1987 Female
*260,000 persons merged
*Completed in 19 hours of processing time
*Time saving if manually merging records
27 years*Cost saving if manually merging records
$1,512,000
First set of patterns
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Name Rotation
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Nicknames
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Ignore Gender
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Date of Birth
(Null DOB/Transposition errors/Variations of day or month/Variations on year not equal to 15
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Exact address match
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Exact telephone number match
John Frederick WARD 16/10/1950 Male 12 Johnson Rd, Hendra
John Frederick WARD 16/10/1950 Female 12 Johnson Rd, Hendra
Alan Paul HUMPHRIES 23/03/1972 Male 0428 366988
Allen Paul HUMPHRIES 23/03/1974 Male 0428 366988
Allan P HUMPHPRIES 23/03/1974 Male 0428 366988
Joy Ann CHUTER 23/04/1956 Female 0408 154878
Ann JOY 23/04/1956 Female 0408 154878
Bob MAY 11/11/1976 Female 55 Hamilton Rd, Hamilton
Robert Lionel MAY 11/11/1976 Male 55 Hamilton Rd, Hamilton
*500,000 persons merged*Completed in 36 hours processing time
*Time saving if manually merged52 years*Cost saving if manually merging records$2,912,000*Another round of merging has since been completed merging approximately 400,000 records
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82,717
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1,543
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Records
Agency 1 261,813
Agency 2 2,180,268
Agency 3 38,252
Exact Match
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(57%)
1,470,429
(67.4%)
19,021
(49.7%)
Pattern 1
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184,072
(+9.3%)
6,311
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Polluted DataPolluted Data
*In 2008, there were 7.2M person records in QPRIME (Population of Qld is 4.4M)
*Over 1.2M person records have been electronically merged since 2008
*Over 350K duplicate person records are created by interfaces and users annually.
*Currently there are 8.4M person records in QPRIME
*Recently 1.5M address records were cleansed and merged
*Govt. Agency trickle feed is the single largest cause of additional unverified addresses, but user entry remains a significant factor as well
* Moynihan Report noted the lack of reliable, comparable and integrated electronic data across the criminal justice system. Queensland Government proposal has the QPS Single Person Identifier (SPI) being adopted across agencies.
* Market research was conducted to determine any 3rd party Data Quality solutions available.
* 3rd party Data Quality software purchased to be utilised to profile and de duplicate QPS data.
* Creation of a team of Business and IT team to mature ICT DQ processes and exploit new solutions.
* Commence continual refinement of Business endorsed matching patterns which can be called on line and in batch mode to de duplicate all data entities within QPS system.
* Buy in from Senior Management to ensure DQ solution goes forward.
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Pristine DataPristine Data