Data cleaning · Charlotte, NC
Charlotte data cleaning for owners who report by neighborhood
Charlotte is a city of districts, and every owner here slices numbers by them. We make the district column say one thing per place, merge repeat customers and turn text prices into numbers.
One name per Charlotte neighborhood
Neighborhood districts around Uptown include SouthPark, NoDa, Plaza Midwood, Myers Park, Dilworth, University City and Ballantyne. Hand-typed, each becomes several: Plaza Midwood, PlazaMidwood, plaza-midwood. A report by neighborhood then shows seven places as twenty.
We list every spelling that appears in the column, you tell us which ones belong together, and a script rewrites them. The list of spellings we found goes to you as well, since it often shows how your team enters data.
Cleaning for the firms and shops around Uptown
Wikipedia calls Charlotte the second-largest banking center in the nation, with major corporations Uptown. Smaller firms around that world, such as accountants, recruiters and consultants, tend to keep contact lists that grew from several sources. The same contact turns up as a business card entry, a conference list entry and a mailing list entry.
We merge those rows by the rule you pick. After the run, we compare the counts before and after and show which rows went where.
Charlotte cleaning before an analysis
Averages and totals break quietly. A price stored as text drops out of a sum without any warning, and the average looks fine anyway. We convert amounts such as 64 with a dollar sign and 48.00 into numbers so both enter the math. The same goes for a price a clerk typed with a trailing note.
Cleaning is stage two of four. Mining pulls records together first, and analysis, then charts, come after. Cleaning sits in the middle because nothing downstream is better than the rows it reads.
Support programs that ask for numbers
The Small Business Center at Central Piedmont Community College offers free, confidential one-on-one advising across Mecklenburg County. The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance runs small business support programs too. Advisers in any of those rooms can work faster with a customer list that has one row per customer.
Questions from Charlotte owners
My team types the neighborhood differently every time. Can that be stopped?
We clean what is already typed, and we tell you which spellings showed up most often so you can decide on a standard list for the future. We do not change your forms.
Do you work with the big Uptown names?
Our work is for small businesses. Banks and large employers appear here as context for the city, not as anyone we have worked with.
How will I know you did not delete something that mattered?
We count rows before and after, and every merge or rewrite appears in a before and after list. Anything we remove is something you approved as a repeat.
Sources for the facts on this page: Charlotte, North Carolina, Wikipedia · About Us, Charlotte Regional Business Alliance · Small Business Center, Central Piedmont Community College
Bring us the Charlotte list with twenty spellings of seven places
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