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Data profiling

Data profiling

- [Instructor] Now that we've run the workflow and passed data into the Browse tool, let's select the Browse tool and do some data profiling. When we first select the Browse tool, we will see a high-level profile for each of the nine fields of information that we are streaming into the Browse tool. Starting with our first field of customer ID, we see the most frequent values, which happen to be one. Well customer ID is more of a unique identifier. We'll talk about that in a moment. But for each of our nine fields, we see the most frequent or the most common values that show up for each. If we want to do more of a deep dive, within one of these fields, we could click on the field header. Or, within the Results window, we could click on the field header or any record within that field, to see a deep dive profile view for the entire field, in this case of customer ID. For this field of customer ID, this is currently…

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