Data Services

Our areas of expertise include Data Collection, Data Cleaning/Enrichment, Data Entry, Database Development & Migration, Web Applications to support data collection and data delivery, Data Research and Analysis and Online Survey Programming.

Data Collection & Data Entry:

Online Data Collection: We carry out digital data & online data collection tasks. We undertake in-depth research and analysis on the Internet on your particular topics/issues and create both automated & manual data collection routines. We program various kinds of online robots that have the capability of crawling the web (submitting forms & following links) and collect any specific information desired
Offline Data Collection: Through our high quality scanning production processes we can accurately capture and convert to digital Image/text format, a large range of source material
Manual Data Entry: Our Manual Data Entry Services include manual keying of every possible text, numeric or mixed document
Data Conversion: We also undertake conversion of legacy format digital data into any other format through electronic or manual re-entry of data into the new database systems

Data Cleaning & Enrichment:

De-duplication: elimination of duplicate records which might be similar looking
Identification and tagging of similar records
Removal of spurious and invalid records
Data validation (for example using a post code checker to identify that addresses are correct)
Removal of obsolete data
Fixing misspellings, typos, abbreviations, and errors
Data normalization (so that there is a common unit of measure for items in a class, e.g. feet, inches, meters, etc. are all converted to one unit of measure)
Data standardization
Enrichment of data with product attributes, images, and manufacturer specifications
Identification of missing or incomplete data
The comparison and removal of records matching third party information, such as the opt-in and opt-out lists