Data Cleaning Techniques

noun the act of imputing or attributing something to someone

verb to attribute or ascribe a quality, especially a fault or crime, to someone

• The forensic accountant was able to impute the missing funds to the embezzler.
• I can't believe you're trying to impute the blame on me for your mistake!
• Don't impute your bad mood on me, I didn't do anything wrong.
• She tried to impute malicious intentions to his actions, but he was simply trying to help.

verb to remove duplicate or redundant items from a set of data

adjective describing the act of removing duplicates or redundancies

• The software has a built-in function to deduplicate records in the database.
• I need to deduplicate my contacts list to get rid of any duplicates.
• I'm gonna clean up my playlist and deduplicate all the songs I have repeated.
• In order to streamline the process, we must deduplicate our efforts and focus on the most important tasks.

verb to remove duplicate entries or data from a database or list

• The software solution is designed to dedupe duplicate records in the database.
• I need to dedupe my contact list before sending out the email.
• I'm gonna run a dedupe on my playlist to get rid of any repeat songs.
• In order to streamline the process, we need to dedupe unnecessary steps in the workflow.