Data profiling

[Spiros Denaxas]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Is there anything out there that can "profile" data?
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> I've got a lot of key/value pairs and I'd like to analyse what "kinds"
> of data are
> associated with particular keys. Bonus points for breaking down
> composite data into
> its constituents and for coming up with analyses of numerical ranges.
>

One idea would be clustering. Data cluster analysis will group all the keys
together according to some
notion of 'distance' between their values. Its then up to you to examine the
clusters and see if you can deduct any valuable information from them.

Spiros


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