Patent ID: 7370057
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer readable storage medium containing software for evaluating a first data cleansing application and a second data cleansing application, said software comprising: a test data generator for creating a dirty set of sample data from a clean set of data wherein said dirty set of sample data includes erroneous data that modifies said clean set of data; an application execution module for cleansing the dirty set of sample data, said application execution module utilizing the first data cleansing application to identify similarities between fields in alpha numeric text records of the dirty set of sample data and create a first cleansed output, said application execution module further utilizing the second data cleansing application to identify similarities between fields in alpha numeric text records of the dirty set of sample data and create a second cleansed output; and a results reporting module for evaluating the first and second cleansed outputs, wherein the first and second cleansed outputs differ from each other in value, said results reporting module producing an output of scores and statistics for each of the first cleansed output of the first data cleansing application and the second cleansed output of the second data cleansing application, said output being stored in said storage medium and wherein said results reporting module further outputs data regarding intermediate steps conducted by the first and second data cleansing applications.