Data cleaning · Atlanta, GA
Atlanta data cleaning for owners with many places to sell
Atlanta has three big business districts and a metro with more than 6.4 million people. Records here come from many sources, and the sources disagree. We bring them under one set of rules and show every change.
Atlanta cleaning when records come from everywhere
Downtown holds the most office space in the metro area, Midtown is the second-largest business district and Buckhead is the third-largest. A consultant, caterer or supplier who sells across all three keeps a contact list assembled from referrals, event cards and web forms. Midtown shows up as Midtown, Mid-town and Mid Town, and a district summary shows a dozen places where there are three.
We gather the variants, you assign each to its district, and a script rewrites the column. A caterer then sees what each district bought, with no row lost to a stray hyphen.
Sector tags that match your own categories
Atlanta's leading sectors include transportation, aerospace, logistics, healthcare, media, film and television, information technology and finance. If you tag customers by sector, the tags drift: film, Film/TV, film and tv, Media. A list that mixes them cannot answer which sector buys the most.
You choose the sectors that matter to your business, and we map every variant to one of them. Rows that fit none get flagged for you to place.
Universities and their many names
Georgia Tech sits on North Avenue in Midtown Atlanta, and the Atlanta University Center Consortium serves Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine and Spelman College. Anyone who sells to campuses, students or alumni knows that Georgia Tech, GT, Ga Tech and Georgia Institute of Technology are one customer.
We merge them by your rule and show you the names we grouped, so nothing gets folded together by accident.
Cleaning ahead of advising
The UGA Small Business Development Center is opening a Buckhead office to serve Fulton County businesses, and it already consults across metro Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta Inc. and Midtown Alliance both serve their districts. A conversation with any adviser goes further when your customer count is right on the first try.
Questions from Atlanta owners
My list has contacts from all over the metro. How do you decide what is a duplicate?
We propose a rule, such as the same email after spaces and capitals are removed, and show the pairs it would merge. You approve the rule or change it. The script runs only after that.
Will you merge two companies that share a name?
Not without your say. Names alone are weak evidence. We flag same-name rows with different emails or addresses and leave them separate until you decide.
Can you work from an export from a big sales tool?
If it exports to a spreadsheet, yes. The cleaning stage works on rows, whichever tool wrote them.
Sources for the facts on this page: Atlanta, Wikipedia · About, Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta University Center Consortium · New Buckhead office, Georgia SBDC at UGA
Tell us which Atlanta list disagrees with itself
Book a free 15 or 30 minute call on the contact page and describe the mess in a few sentences.