Researchers have developed a novel tool for managing the quality of your data.
Researchers have developed a novel tool for managing the quality of your data.
The revolutionary tool, HoloClean is the first to use artificial intelligence (AI) to sift out dirty data and correct errors before processing it.
“More and more machines are making decisions for us, so all our lives are touched by dirty data daily,” said Ihab Ilyas, a professor in Waterloo’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. “If organizations like banks or utility companies are working with bad data, it could negatively impact things such as credit scores or mortgage approvals.”
The HoloClean system, developed by Ilyas and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin and Stanford University, successfully tackles the problem of insufficient training data by automatically generating bad examples without messing with the information, but enough to train the system to find errors and correct them on its own.
Read more at University of Waterloo
