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 cleared71,257Placeholder tokens such as NULL, N/A, UNKNOWN or "-" treated as empty
- Whitespace trimmed57,061Leading or trailing whitespace removed from one or more fields
- Address re-cased56,490Street line re-cased and punctuation removed
- Street suffix standardised55,824Street suffix standardised to USPS abbreviation (Street to St, Avenue to Ave, and so on)
- Phone reformatted50,244Phone reduced to ten digits, punctuation and leading country code removed
- Name re-cased39,996Name letter-case rewritten to Title Case and stray characters removed
- Date of birth reformatted32,400Date of birth rewritten to ISO 8601 from a source format (MM/DD/YYYY, YYYYMMDD, Mon D, YYYY)
- City re-cased17,850City re-cased to Title Case
- Gender normalised16,828Gender mapped to F or M from a longer or variant value
- Email lower-cased11,635Email lower-cased
- Name split from “Last, First”9,980First-name field held "LAST, FIRST"; the two parts were split into their own fields
- State name converted to code9,084Full state name replaced by its two-letter USPS code
- ZIP+4 trimmed8,263ZIP+4 trimmed to the five-digit ZIP
- Member ID reformatted7,723Member ID re-hyphenated and upper-cased to the UHC-#####-## pattern
- ZIP missing7,146Street address present but no ZIP supplied
- Unit split from street6,994Apartment, suite or unit designator split from street line and re-appended in standard form
- Two-digit birth year6,661Date of birth carried a two-digit year; century inferred by pivot
- State code upper-cased4,010Two-letter state code upper-cased
- Plan code upper-cased3,278Plan code upper-cased
- SSN last four extracted2,817Last four digits of SSN extracted from a longer or punctuated value
- Date of birth unreadable2,274Date of birth did not match any known format or was out of range; cleared
- Phone missing area code2,021Phone had only seven digits (no area code); cleared
- Middle initial moved out of first name1,125A single middle initial was embedded in the first-name field and moved to middle name
- Date of birth missing990Date of birth absent or a null token; left empty
- No usable name (quarantined)505No usable last name; record quarantined as junk and excluded from matching
Normalised records
Claims, flag “ZIP missing”, lowest dq score first
| Record | Source | Name | DOB | Member ID | Phone | Address | Quality score | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLM-423007 | CLM | John Vasquez | 1977-10-25 | — | — | 5225 Lincoln Way, Nashville, TN | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-430695 | CLM | Linda Banks | 1959-12-08 | — | 8714636087 | 9484 River Rd, San Antonio, TX | 0.84 | Phone reformattedZIP missing |
| CLM-423889 | CLM | Beverly Rogers | 2003-05-26 | — | — | 487 Main St, San Antonio, TX | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-420502 | CLM | Juan M Padilla | 2000-09-05 | UHC-83094-01 | — | 5578 Valley View Dr, Tempe, AZ | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-421233 | CLM | Tim Webb | 1973-07-11 | — | — | 1386 Central Ave, Plano, TX | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-402510 | CLM | Olivia Hunt | 1987-09-16 | — | 5355722990 | 4796 Hillcrest Rd, Atlanta, GA | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-409359 | CLM | Susan Scott | 1971-09-12 | — | 7159685927 | 6472 Main St, San Diego, CA | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-413736 | CLM | Santiago N Hudson | 1951-09-25 | UHC-21919-41 | 2827546907 | 6607 Meadow Ln, Houston, TX | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-427599 | CLM | Susan F Gardner | 1945-07-28 | — | — | 8370 Camelback Rd, San Antonio, TX | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-404431 | CLM | Turner Jon | 1939-06-23 | — | — | 7967 Lake View Rd, Chandler, AZ | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-417270 | CLM | Lori Baker | 1968-03-05 | — | 7122378569 | 6161 Indian School Rd, Miami, FL | 0.84 | ZIP missingWhitespace trimmed |
| CLM-411267 | CLM | Omar Thomas | 1983-02-04 | UHC-30987-31 | — | 3899 Union St, Eden Prairie, MN | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-414077 | CLM | Marilyn J Maldonado | 1964-05-17 | UHC-86096-01 | — | 3646 Canyon Rd, Orlando, FL | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-407274 | CLM | Anna Carr | 1965-06-17 | UHC-83901-86 | — | 6692 River Rd, Houston, TX | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-407275 | CLM | Anna Carr | 1965-06-17 | UHC-83901-86 | — | 6692 River Rd, Houston, TX | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-414973 | CLM | Amanda Parker | 1947-02-27 | UHC-47167-27 | — | 2487 Apache Blvd, Denver, CO | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-410669 | CLM | Hernandez Ken | 1978-11-12 | UHC-86070-65 | — | 4079 Valley View Dr, Glendale, AZ | 0.84 | Member ID reformattedZIP missing |
| CLM-410668 | CLM | Hernandez Ken | 1978-11-12 | UHC-86070-65 | — | 4079 Valley View Dr, Glendale, AZ | 0.84 | Member ID reformattedZIP missing |
| CLM-428609 | CLM | Gordon Stephen | 1988-03-22 | — | — | 5705 Meadow Ln, Seattle, WA | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-428610 | CLM | Gordon Stephen | 1988-03-22 | — | — | 5705 Meadow Ln, Seattle, WA | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-428814 | CLM | Betty Stephens | 2006-12-15 | — | 8869139445 | 6241 Lincoln Way, Eden Prairie, MN | 0.84 | ZIP missingPlaceholder values cleared |
| CLM-407723 | CLM | Raymond Banks | 2004-07-09 | UHC-53680-51 | 8823434683 | 2102 Central Ave, Denver, CO | 0.86 | ZIP missing |