Data cleansing is a process by which a computer program detects, records, and corrects inconsistencies and errors within a collection of data. Image: freshidea/Adobe Stock Data is at the foundation of ...

Imagine this: you’ve just received a dataset for an urgent project. At first glance, it’s a mess—duplicate entries, missing values, inconsistent formats, and columns that don’t make sense. You know ...

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"Dirty data"—data that has issues such as being incorrect or incomplete—can slow down operations, waste resources, and drive bad decisions. The solution to the problem is data cleansing, which is the ...

Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Companies in 2022 are implementing data-driven strategies to ...

There is growing recognition of the importance to pension schemes of having good membership data. Poor quality data can frustrate a scheme’s business plans. It can also increase costs. Anecdotally, ...

The need to scrub data is made pretty clear by simple questions like this one: Are Jerry L. Jonson of 16 Clarke St., Altuna, PA, and Gerry L. Johnson of 16 Clark Street, Altoona, Penn., the same ...

The world runs on data. A hallmark of successful businesses is their ability to use quality facts and figures to their advantage. Unfortunately, data rarely arrives ready to use. Instead, businesses ...