It's time for spring cleaning, including your enterprise data stores, says data expert Joey D'Antoni, who offers front-line data-hygiene advice straight from the IT trenches. "Data can be one of our ...

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 ...

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. Data cleansing is the process of identifying and fixing ...

One drawback of working for so long in the data industry is that I often misjudge what people think about when they think about data. Particularly, I've observed a common misunderstanding about ...