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Cleansing Hand Keyed Data and Outputting to New Column

ACasteel
5 - Atom

Good morning,

I have figured out a Data Cleansing and Fuzzy Match flow that works semi-decently at cleaning up some hand-keyed city names. However, I need help figuring out how to get it to output the results to a new column and leave the original column completely intact.

 

I'm also open to suggestions to improve the current workflow, as the database we're dealing with is Intelligent Audit data from hand-keyed input. To put it lightly, it's an absolute mess. Cleansing one location in San Cristobal, DO has 120 unique results if you include the destination state and country, for example.

 

Origin City
HAINA  SAN CRISTOBAL
HAINA, SAN CRISTOBAL
HAINA,SAN CRISTOBAL
PSA SAN CRISTOBAL
SAN CRISTIOBAL
SAN CRISTOBA
SAN CRISTOBAL
SAN CRISTOBAL  DOM  REP
SAN CRISTOBAL (PROVINCIA)
SAN CRISTOBAL, DOM  REP
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geraldo
13 - Pulsar

@ACasteel 

 


You could export the workflow because excel is not present

hellyars
13 - Pulsar

Do you have a postal code that could be used to cross reference against a list of cities to ensure the same city name and construct is used?

ACasteel
5 - Atom

@hellyars Unfortunately, the zip code often needs to be added or corrected as well.

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