Data cleaning · Cary, NC
Cary data cleaning for event sellers, trainers and firms
Cary hosts a lot of festivals, and the sellers who work them keep booth lists, buyer lists and mailing lists that overlap. We make one clean copy of each and show you what we changed.
Cleaning booth records across Cary's festivals
Lazy Daze has closed downtown roads since 1976, and Spring Daze sits beside it as the town's other long-running arts event. Cary also hosts Diwali, the Greater Triangle Area Dragon Boat Festival, Ritmo Latino and the North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival. A seller who works several of them has a sales log with festival names in every spelling imaginable.
We give each festival one label, so a comparison of events means what it says. Prices typed as text become numbers, and we mark every cell we touched.
A growing town, a growing mailing list
The opening of Research Triangle Park in 1959 drove rapid population growth in Cary, and the 2020 census counted 174,721 people. Growth shows up in your list as new sign-ups beside old ones, and many are the same person. A newsletter list of a few hundred names can hold dozens of repeats.
We find them with a rule you approve, such as the same email once capitals and trailing spaces are stripped, and list each pair before anything merges.
Cleaning for trainers and course sellers in Cary
Anyone teaching a class keeps a roster, and rosters collect spelling slips: Cary NC, cary, Cary, North Carolina. A trainer who sorts by town finds one place listed five ways. We standardize the town and any course names, then compare roster counts before and after the run.
The same method works for a membership list that a person updates by hand each month.
Cary resources that work better with tidy rows
The Cary Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1962 and has roughly 1,200 member businesses. The Wake Tech Small Business Center at 3434 Kildaire Farm Road offers free, confidential counseling to any Wake County resident or small business. Whichever door you open, the first question concerns customers and sales. A sheet that agrees with itself lets you answer it in a sentence.
Questions from Cary owners
Which festival did best for me, and can cleaning answer that?
Cleaning makes sure each festival has one name and every sale carries a real number. The comparison itself belongs to analysis, which uses the cleaned sheet.
I have a sign-up list from a class and another from my newsletter. Can they match?
We can apply one set of rules to both lists and mark people who appear in each. Merging them into a single table is a mining step we can talk through on a call.
Do you fix the way I typed names, or leave them?
We fix spacing and obvious spelling slips under rules you approve. A name that might be a nickname gets flagged for you instead of rewritten.
Sources for the facts on this page: Cary, North Carolina, Wikipedia · About Us, Cary Chamber of Commerce · Small Business Center, Wake Technical Community College
Hand us the Cary list that repeats people
Book a free call on the contact page. Bring the sheet and say what you want counted.