Normalised records

Normalised records (silver)

Each raw row is parsed into consistently formatted fields. Every change from the raw value is recorded as a data-quality flag.

Normalised rows

99,495

usable in matching

Flagged rows

99,881

99.9% carry at least one flag

Junk quarantined

505

no usable last name

Average quality score

0.75

1.00 = no corrections needed

Quality flags

What normalisation had to do, and how often. Select a flag to filter the table.

Placeholder values cleared71,257
Placeholder tokens such as NULL, N/A, UNKNOWN or "-" treated as empty
Whitespace trimmed57,061
Leading or trailing whitespace removed from one or more fields
Address re-cased56,490
Street line re-cased and punctuation removed
Street suffix standardised55,824
Street suffix standardised to USPS abbreviation (Street to St, Avenue to Ave, and so on)
Phone reformatted50,244
Phone reduced to ten digits, punctuation and leading country code removed
Name re-cased39,996
Name letter-case rewritten to Title Case and stray characters removed
Date of birth reformatted32,400
Date of birth rewritten to ISO 8601 from a source format (MM/DD/YYYY, YYYYMMDD, Mon D, YYYY)
City re-cased17,850
City re-cased to Title Case
Gender normalised16,828
Gender mapped to F or M from a longer or variant value
Email lower-cased11,635
Email lower-cased
Name split from “Last, First”9,980
First-name field held "LAST, FIRST"; the two parts were split into their own fields
State name converted to code9,084
Full state name replaced by its two-letter USPS code
ZIP+4 trimmed8,263
ZIP+4 trimmed to the five-digit ZIP
Member ID reformatted7,723
Member ID re-hyphenated and upper-cased to the UHC-#####-## pattern
ZIP missing7,146
Street address present but no ZIP supplied
Unit split from street6,994
Apartment, suite or unit designator split from street line and re-appended in standard form
Two-digit birth year6,661
Date of birth carried a two-digit year; century inferred by pivot
State code upper-cased4,010
Two-letter state code upper-cased
Plan code upper-cased3,278
Plan code upper-cased
SSN last four extracted2,817
Last four digits of SSN extracted from a longer or punctuated value
Date of birth unreadable2,274
Date of birth did not match any known format or was out of range; cleared
Phone missing area code2,021
Phone had only seven digits (no area code); cleared
Middle initial moved out of first name1,125
A single middle initial was embedded in the first-name field and moved to middle name
Date of birth missing990
Date of birth absent or a null token; left empty
No usable name (quarantined)505
No usable last name; record quarantined as junk and excluded from matching

Normalised records

Third-party administrator, flag “Unit split from street”, lowest dq score first

All ENR CLM TPA PRV

Junk onlyFlagUnit split from streetClear

Record	Source	Name	DOB	Member ID	Phone	Address	Quality score	Flags
TPA-61021	TPA	Asha Medina	1999-02-06	—	—	7802 Ocean Ave # 473, San Antonio, TX, 78270	0.82	Name re-cased Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-51396	TPA	Yuki Richardson	1982-02-08	—	6144330688	2434 Forest Ave # 229, Eden Prairie, MN, 55340	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-55347	TPA	Jeffrey Shaw	1971-09-20	—	—	403 River Rd # 561, Los Angeles, CA, 90098	0.84	Unit split from street Whitespace trimmed
TPA-51205	TPA	Jack Reed	1963-04-03	—	—	9195 River Rd # 142, Charlotte, NC, 28255	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-58665	TPA	Arthur Sanders	1946-01-06	—	—	8522 Main St Apt 22, Orlando, FL, 32809	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-55536	TPA	Lori Varags	1997-12-18	—	—	7352 River Rd Apt 20, Houston, TX, 77015	0.84	Date of birth reformatted Unit split from street
TPA-57016	TPA	Melissa Rodriguez	1943-03-11	—	6044501001	2585 Ocean Ave # 320, Charlotte, NC, 28287	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-59219	TPA	Gerald Tran	1980-06-22	—	—	4623 Church St Apt 9, Mesa, AZ, 85287	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-53306	TPA	Jose Silva	1944-11-08	—	—	3387 River Rd # 791, Mesa, AZ, 85247	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-61223	TPA	Jonathan G Taylor	1981-08-02	—	—	34 Market St # 982, Tucson, AZ, 85764	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-63049	TPA	Betty H Marshall	1957-11-08	—	—	9766 Mesa Dr Apt 17, Gilbert, AZ, 85212	0.84	Unit split from street Placeholder values cleared
TPA-63104	TPA	Aisha McCoy	2004-08-22	—	—	354 Market St Apt 10, San Diego, CA, 92198	0.86	Unit split from street

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