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 ...

Amazon today announced it has extended its program for data cleansing, known as Glue, with a visual user interface that automates some steps necessary to prepare data, to simplify the task for ...

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a messy spreadsheet of survey data, wondering how to make sense of it all, you’re not alone. From split headers to inconsistent blanks, the challenges of ...

As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning ...

"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 ...

Kathleen Hurley is the founder of Sage Inc., a tech company that offers SMB businesses infrastructure solutions and next-gen technology. As data becomes everything to everybody, it’s crucial to ...

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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, ...

A new article published in the Journal of Dental Research explores the development of an integrated data-cleaning and subtype ...