by Pam Lang | Mar 28, 2022 | Data Insights, Data Quality, Resources
Whether your data is right or wrong, it’s driving every decision you make. Read that again. Whether your data is right or wrong, it’s driving every decision you make. Let’s face it. Maintaining quality data is a never-ending, thorny challenge that...
by Pam Lang | Feb 1, 2022 | Data Insights, Data Quality, Deduping, Resources
How do you treat your duplicates? Stop for a moment and think about this… The natural reaction for most companies is to delete duplicate records without much thought. But we LOVE duplicates! ..so much information to glean. So, there are really 3 main choices to...
by Pam Lang | Sep 21, 2021 | Data From the Trenches, Data Quality
It can be funny until these customer names show up in YOUR data. And how about Slime Ball, Welfare Leech, Ray Rat, Busy Body, or Dick Jiggles? And right up there with Captain Underpants, the ever popular Poop Pooper. The worst ones are not always the standard curse...
by Pam Lang | Sep 6, 2021 | Data Quality, Deduping, Resources
It happens…You’re under a time crunch to deliver data for a business project, and a few duplicates catch your eye. What now?Luckily, Excel provides tools to dedupe data in a pinch. WAIT!! Before you click that Remove Duplicates button, and before you delete any...
by Pam Lang | Aug 23, 2021 | Data Quality
How many times have you gotten a quote for something – a remodel, a repair, a process, a service…. and thought it was too high priced? MANY TIMES! Am I Right?? Be honest.. Same here. We received several ‘outrageous’ quotes to remodel our second bathroom and...