Data cleaning articles
Let’s say, you run a background screening platform.
You pull data from courts, registries, vendors, and public sources. Some day, you discover that one person shows up three times in your system:
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A 2024 peer-reviewed study in Criminology found that about 60% of people had at least one false positive in their reports, and nearly 90% had at least one false negative. So they’re systemic issues you have to design around.
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