Data cleaning · Sandy Springs, GA
Sandy Springs data cleaning from City Springs to Perimeter
Sandy Springs has hundreds of independently owned restaurants and shops, and a commercial hub around Perimeter Center. Two very different kinds of record keeper, one shared habit: sheets that drift. We stop the drift.
Sandy Springs cleaning for Restaurant Row
Visit Sandy Springs describes hundreds of independently owned restaurants and shops in the city, including a Restaurant Row of more than 100 local eateries. An owner on that strip reads a weekly sales export and sees Chicken Sandwich, chicken sandwich and Chk Sandwich on separate lines. The best seller looks like three average ones.
We list the variants, you rank which spelling stays, and one script rewrites the export. The next report ranks each dish once.
Perimeter Center and the offices around it
Perimeter Center is a commercial hub around Perimeter Mall, about 60 percent of it in Sandy Springs, and includes the Pill Hill medical area. Hospitals, computing, package delivery, telecommunications, media and financial processing drive the local economy. Small firms serving those industries keep account lists in which a company is entered as its brand, its legal name and its abbreviation.
We merge them under your rule and hand you the list of what we grouped. No account vanishes without a line in that list.
Farmers market and festival records at City Springs
City Springs is the downtown center, with city offices, retail, a green and a performing arts center that opened in 2018. The Sandy Springs Farmers Market runs Saturdays from April to November there, and the city holds an annual Sandy Springs Festival and an annual Artsapalooza fine arts festival.
Event vendors record sales fast. We convert text prices, give each event one name and fix product spellings, so one festival can be set against another.
Free education series, tidy numbers
The city started a Know & Grow Small Business Education Series in 2022 with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the UGA Small Business Development Center and SCORE. The Greater Perimeter Chamber is the chamber of commerce the city lists for local businesses. Both reward owners who can quote a customer count with confidence, which starts with rows that no longer repeat.
Questions from Sandy Springs owners
Our POS names items differently from our online menu. Can you reconcile them?
Yes, once you tell us which name is the standard. We map every variant from both sources to it and show the mapping as a list you can read and correct.
Is there a difference between cleaning and analysis?
Cleaning fixes the rows so the counts are right. Analysis uses those counts to answer a question you pose. We do them in that order.
We have two locations. Can the sheets be joined?
We can apply the same rules to both sheets so labels match, which makes them comparable. Combining them into one table is part of mining, our first stage.
Sources for the facts on this page: Visit Sandy Springs · Sandy Springs, Georgia, Wikipedia · Farmers Market, Visit Sandy Springs · Know & Grow announcement, City of Sandy Springs
Tell us what is piling up in your Sandy Springs sheets
Book a free call on the contact page. Describe the mess in a few sentences and we will reply with where we would start.