With all that talk about data science and big data, one aspect that's often forgotten is the essential task of cleaning your data! Come to think of it, how can you do any real analysis or forecasting if data is not ready for analysis? How will you accurately understand your business or your customers if you're missing data points or you have data errors?
For any business with an urgent need to derive insight from accessible data, it's vital to have the data ready for analysis. Possessing a large database won't mean much for your business if the information is incorrect or inaccurate.
We help businesses format, clean, modify, organize and correct collected information across multiple data fields. We correct all data irregularities, update obsolete data, and organize mailing lists, ensuring consistent and homogenous data – of real value to our clients.
Our Approach
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Planning
Creation of a data cleaning plan
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Data screening
Preparing data sets, inspection of qualitative and quantitative variables, and verification of variable name that are consistent between data tables
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Data cleaning and preparation for further analysis
Checking for outlying values, missing values, inappropriate date ranges, duplicates and miscalculated variables