There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing is the one-off process of tackling the errors within the database, ensuring retrospective anomalies are automatically located and removed. Another term, data maintenance, describes ongoing correction and verification - the process of continual improvement and regular checks.
Often, businesses ask us: which process is the most important? In the long term, which one should we focus on? Unfortunately there is no simple answer, but there is an easy way to understand the differences between them.
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When we think about data, we can compare it to caring for our health. In particular, data maintenance is a lot like brushing your teeth. We brush our teeth at leas...