A random meetup in Austin made me rethink my whole data cleaning process

I was at a small tech meetup there last month, mostly just to kill time. This guy from a local startup was showing how they used a new AI tool to find bad data in their customer lists. He said they cut their cleaning time from about 20 hours a week down to 3. I've been doing it all by hand for my own client records, so I tried a similar method. It's not perfect, but it flagged a bunch of duplicate addresses I would have missed. Has anyone else found a good trick for this that doesn't cost a ton?

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gavin_reed8d ago

What was the name of the AI tool the Austin guy mentioned?

linda_ward8d ago

My buddy Mark was at that meetup and he texted me about it later. He said the guy from Austin was really hyped up about a tool called "Scribe". It's supposed to help write code or something, but Mark said the demo was a bit buggy. Honestly, it sounded like another one of those things that's neat but not really ready for the shop floor.