Data cleansing

Information - information technology - data.

Data cleansing is work undertaken on a set of data to correct or remove - so far as practicable - any duplicated, omitted, corrupted, incomplete or wrongly formatted data.

This may include re-ordering the data into a more useful - or useable - sequence.

See also

• Big data
• Cleansing
• Data
• Data breach
• Data exchange
• Data matching
• Data mining
• Data presentation
• Data protection
• Data Protection Act
• Data Protection Authority
• Data Protection Officer
• Data room
• Data science
• Data scraping
• Data table
• Database
• Datasphere
• Electronic data interchange (EDI)
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Governance
• Information technology
• Knowledge discovery in data
• Secondary reference data
• Statistics
• Transformation
• Values