Data Hygiene
Overview
- cleaning is cool
- names
- data hoarding
- redundancy
Data Janitor
Keeping data clean
Someone has to do it
Data Hoarding
Keep it Simple
What do you really need?
Scope
- know what you are looking for
- remove the extra stuff
Redundancy
Redundancy
- don't want it in your papers
- don't want it in your conversations
- don't want it in your data
Redundant data
| Name | NameMid | name2 | nameFull |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob | Bobby | Rob | Bob Robertson |
| James | Danger | 007 | James Bond |
| Darth | N/A | Anakin | Darth Vader |
References
- By Pierre Honeyman (But only one of them works) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
- By Grap (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons