{"id":5253,"date":"2026-02-25T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/insights\/what-is-data-cleansing"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:04","slug":"what-is-data-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_pt","link":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/insights\/what-is-data-cleansing","title":{"rendered":"What is data cleansing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data cleansing is the process by which data is cleansed and improved so that the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/data-kwaliteit\">data quality <\/a><\/u><br \/>\ngoes up. Sometimes data cleansing is also called data cleaning or data scrubbing. It is often part of an <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/etl\">ETL<\/a><\/u>ordata wrangling process. All have the same goal of putting the familiar phrase &#8220;Garbage in, Garbage out&#8221; out the door for good.   <\/p>\n<p>For example, in the context of data analytics, data cleansing can be used to detect and correct errors or incomplete data, to remove duplicates, and to standardize data so that it can be used consistently in analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data cleansing is the process of cleaning and improving data, with the goal of ensuring that the data quality is high and suitable for use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","knowledge_type":[58],"knowledge_category":[],"class_list":["post-5253","knowledge_pt","type-knowledge_pt","status-publish","hentry","knowledge_type-simplified"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge_pt"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledge_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_type?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_category?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}