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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are drowning in data. Every platform, smartwatch, and smartphone fragments our lives into quantifiable tidbits, yet most of it remains incoherent and unusable.  Companies know this, which is why ...

The explosion of data in the modern world has brought on many novel business problems when It comes to the applications of modeling and analysis. Businesses are starting to recognize the value that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...