From the course: Introduction to Business Analytics (2020)
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Database management
From the course: Introduction to Business Analytics (2020)
Database management
- Managing data can get pretty messy. In this video, I'm going to explain some of the common issues with wrangling your data. The biggest issue with managing data is maintaining high data quality. One of the worst things that could possibly happen to an analyst or a data-savvy business owner is for them to make a poor decision based on some bad data. So why is data quality such an issue? Well there are often many different moving parts in an organization's data structure. Here are some of the common causes of poor quality of data. First, data collection can really be a sticking point. For example, if your team is manually entering in company names, they might type ABC space Trucking or ABC underscore Trucking or A dot B dot C and so on, and so forth. This can cause a major issue, in the long run, especially when you're trying to see total sales for this one company. And it could potentially lead you to making the wrong…
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