Data Quality Analyst: history and fun facts
Everything a curious kid might want to know about this job.
Did you know?
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Computers store information a bit like a giant box of index cards, and a Data Quality Analyst makes sure every card is neat and correct!
Through history
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Long ago
People kept records by hand in big paper books. Careful checkers read every line to catch mistakes, long before computers existed.
Tools of the trade
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Data Profiling Tool
A special computer program that scans huge lists of information and quickly shows where things look strange, like a missing name or a date that is wrong.
A day in the job
- MorningThe analyst opens the computer and checks the lists that were updated overnight, looking for anything that seems out of place.
Words to know
- Data Cleaning
- Fixing mistakes in information, like correcting a misspelled name or joining two copies of the same person into one.
Quiz time
A Data Quality Analyst only looks at pictures on computers.
Correct information helps a pizza get delivered to the right house.