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Data Quality Analyst: history and fun facts

Everything a curious kid might want to know about this job.

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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.