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Simple Replacement / Normalization

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Purpose

  • Replace or fill an attribute in Data Source A with a lookup value from Data Source B by matching on aliases. When an alias is found, replace it with the normalized value.
  • This task is useful to replace one value with another value, or replace different variations with one standard value.

 

Tips

  • This requires the use of a Reference Data Source that contains a list of normalized values and the mapping to their alias values. For example, in the Openprise reference  Reference – States, Provinces, Regions, it contains State Name (e.g. California), Postal Abbreviation (e.g. CA), Aliases (e.g. California, CA, Calif).
  • The aliases can also contain nicknames such as "The Golden State".
  • You cannot normalize on an empty attribute.
  • Use matching method “fuzzy match” to catch misspellings and minor variations.
  • Use matching method “contains” to search for alias appearing among a sentence or a block of text.
  • If you need to match more than one attribute to achieve normalization, consider using the Infer value task instead.

 

Examples

  1. Normalize state aliases such as California, Calif, Calif., and CA to "California". We recommend using the Openprise reference Openprise reference Reference – States, Provinces, Regions.
  2. Normalize country aliases such as United Sates, United States of America, US, U.S., USA, and U.S.A., to "USA". We recommend using the Openprise reference Reference – Countries – Multilingual.
  3. Normalize customer aliases such as Toyota USA, Toyota Corp., Toyoto Motor Sales, to "Toyota Motor Sales USA".
  4. Segment job title data into job level seniority and job function attributes. We recommend Openprise references Reference – Job Level Seniorities and Reference – Job Functions. For example:
  • If Job Title = “VP, Enterprise Architecture”, then set Job Level Seniority = “Executive” and Job Function = “IT”.
  • If Job Title = "Sales Engineer", then set Job Level Seniority = "Contributor" and Job Function = "Sales".

 

Support Contacts

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact us at help@openprisetech.com.

 

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