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    What to do about "messy data"

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    Graham Immerman Industry 4.0 / August 28, 2019

    What is messy data? It's data that you can't analyze or use right away, and time is wasted when problems aren't caught immediately. 

    Industry Week said, "Manufacturing software providers shouldn’t view their job as complete once the data feed is set up. For each process step, each machine, each sensor, they should take a few minutes to understand the data."

    We agree, and we believe that data should be available immediately, and that's why we have real-time analytics dashboards. Messy data is wasting time and money! What you need from your data is immediate, actionable insights that can be used to improve efficiency. 

    Recommended ReadIs Messy Data An Inevitability?Source: http://www.industryweek.com

    Manufacturing software providers shouldn’t view their job as complete once the data feed is set up.If you ask your data scientists to summarize their top five cleaning techniques and give those to your manufacturing software provider they should be able to automate the bulk of the cleaning.Read More

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