Adventures in Data Profiling is a vendor-neutral collection of OCDQ content about the common functionality provided by data profiling tools. Understanding your data is essential to using it effectively and improving its quality – and to achieve these goals, there is simply no substitute for data analysis. Data profiling is a critical step in a variety of information management projects, including data quality, data warehousing, master data management, data migration, data integration, and many others.

Complete Blog Series

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 1) – Series Introduction 

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 2) – Customer ID and Gender Code

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 3) – Birth Date, Telephone Number and E-mail Address

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 4) – City Name, State Abbreviation, Zip Code and Country Code

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 5) – Postal Address Line 1 and Postal Address Line 2

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 6) – Account Number and Tax ID

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 7) – Customer Name 1 and Customer Name 2

• Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 8) – Series Conclusion