In the world of data management, efficiency is king. That applies to businesses, but it also applies to educators and data ...

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 ...

Have you ever been overwhelmed by a messy dataset in Excel, unsure of where to start with cleaning it up? You’re not alone. Data cleaning can be one of the most tedious and time-consuming tasks for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Data is a critical ...

Cleaning data is no different from many types of maintenance - just as disorganization creates disruptions in life, working with unclean data can be a recipe for disaster for an enterprise. Wasting ...

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 ...

The ultimate purpose for data is to drive decisions. But data isn’t as reliable or accurate as we want to believe. This leads to a most undesirable result: Bad data means bad decisions. As a data ...