Data Cleaning

Ethical Relationships: Donors ARE Data – the Ethical Implications of Data Hygiene

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Author: T. Clay Buck; Publisher: AFP Global; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses the implications of maintaining clean data within a not-for-profit setting. In particular it focuses on how clean data about donations and donors is important, both for the success of the non-profit and for respecting the donor…

Justice for “Data Janitors”

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Author: Lilly Irani; Publisher: Public Books; Publication Year: 2015. The following article describes how when things in the technology world become automated, the work that is being “replaced” is not actually replaced, but displaced. For example, a manufacturing process that has been automated may replace the individual workers, but over the long term, it just displaces them to monitor the machines and facilitate…