{"id":8566,"date":"2018-07-25T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=8566"},"modified":"2018-05-29T07:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:46:20","slug":"data-cleaning-avoid-misguided-decisions-by-practicing-data-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/data-cleaning-avoid-misguided-decisions-by-practicing-data-cleansing\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Cleaning: Avoid Misguided Decisions by Practicing Data Cleansing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data analytics are enabling businesses to make better decisions, but the presence of “dirty data” can adversely affect the results of the analysis.\u00a0 If data isn’t accurate, forecasts, outcomes and decisions can be misguided. Data cleansing is the process of removing duplicate data, identifying and fixing incorrect data, and appending data that was incomplete or missing.<\/p>\n

Thomas C. Redman<\/a>, president of Data Quality Solutions, wrote in Harvard Business Review<\/a> that “poor data quality is enemy number one to the widespread, profitable use of machine learning. While the caustic observation, \u201cgarbage-in, garbage-out\u201d has plagued analytics and decision-making for generations, it carries a special warning for machine learning. The quality demands of machine learning are steep, and bad data can rear its ugly head twice \u2014 first in the historical data used to train the predictive model and second in the new data used by that model to make future decisions.”<\/p>\n

Her are steps you can follow to clean your data<\/a>:<\/p>\n