The healthcare industry has a data paradox. Globally, there’s an estimated 2.5 zettabytes of healthcare data – but only a fraction of it is actually usable. And the overwhelming majority of that ...

Challenges with data quality and data governance have plagued healthcare analytics efforts for decades – and the stakes are only getting higher in the age of AI. Inaccurate or inconsistent data ...

The cleaning of laboratory balances is vital in ensuring that contamination does not compromise lab weighing accuracy. In regulatory labs, the cleaning of balances often forms part of standard ...

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 ...

As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning ...

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 ...

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 ...