Colin Dixon

Data Profiling: Action Plan

Data Profiling provides a quick and easy way to get a great understanding of your data with only a handful of simple checks and techniques. And yet perhaps the most important aspect is often overlooked: all your checks and analysis will be of little valu... Read >

Data Profiling: Duplicates and keys

The aim of Data Profiling is to better understand the data you actually have rather than what you think you have. A variety of quick and easy checks can quickly uncover issues which could otherwise derail your data project. Here we're going to look at ... Read >

Data Profiling: Cross-attribute checks

Data Profiling is about exploring your data using a set of simple and quick checks. The aim is to better understand what you have before embarking on any data initiative. And it's amazing what issues you'll find, even with some pretty quick and easy analy... Read >

Data Profiling: attribute patterns

Data Profiling is about understanding your data. It is an essential first step for any data project: validating your data at the analysis stage before it causes real problems for your project. In this article, we're only going to look at one particula... Read >

Data Profiling: attribute-level checks

Before starting any data initiative you need to understand your data. Data Profiling is about building that understanding, using a set of simply and quick checks. Here we're going to focus on attribute-level checks, which tend to form the bulk of any D... Read >

Data Profiling: 10-Steps to understanding your data

21% of senior IT executives believed that poor data quality costs their company between $10 and $100 million per year, according to a recent survey. And less than 15% believe their data is high quality. Data is coming in through all sorts of processes... Read >

What is Data Profiling?

Before you start any data integration or data analysis project (indeed before you start any project involving data) you need to understand what data you really have; not what data you think you have. Data Profiling is about building that understanding,... Read >