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April 2014 ParseNIP your Data Unstructured data set improvers: augmentation, scrubbing and structuring

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Formation Software LLC makes data conversion software. ParseNIP puts your knowledge of your data set in the driving seat. The need to tap into and pay for expensive IT resources or utilize specialist scripting or programming languages is eliminated in may cases. Change your data to the way you want it to be. ParseNIP your data.

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Page 1: Convert Data -  ParseNIP Your Data Structuring and Scrubbing & Cleaning

April 2014

ParseNIP your Data

Unstructured data set improvers:

augmentation, scrubbing and structuring

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The example data set

• 7000+ Names and addresses of business

• Semi structured – Not really

delimited

• Not sure how reliable or complete it is.

Done in 10-20 Minutes

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Do you ever

• Have to use data which is like this?

A list of Michigan building company contacts for a marketing campaign. Don’t know how good the quality is. Found issues.

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Need for Fast Validation – Fast correction

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Features and Benefits

• Apply rules to validate and augment the quality– Visual Expression Builder

• Structure– Make the best use of unstructured and semi-structured text …

• Basic and advanced features include– Trim unwanted spaces *– Find and Replace **– Regular Expressions **– Provide values from lookup tests ***

• ParseNIP conversion engine runs and previews results – Practice prior to commitment to a final transformation.

Summary: Much faster than manual entry alone - use your time and your customers’ time wisely!

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Improve your data as you convert

• Examples of how to authenticate & enhance what you have with lookup tables

• County • Zip Code

Importedfrom a file.

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Features and Benefits

• Apply rules to validate and augment the quality– Visual Expression Builder

• Structure– Make the best use of unstructured and semi-structured text …

• Basic and advanced features include– Trim unwanted spaces– Find and Replace– Regular Expressions– Provide values from lookup tests

• ParseNIP conversion engine runs and previews results – Prior to commitment to a final transformation.

Summary: Much faster than manual entry alone - use your time and your customers’ time wisely!

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The Advantages of Validation

• Add information by rule - not by keyboard.

– Add to your lookup table resolver method for the future.– Faster – More accurate

• Invalid Telephone Numbers = concentrate on things you know need further research

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Reference

Further info in Users’ Guide which comes with the application

For questions: [email protected]