Common Data Issues

The incoming client data has several issues that need to be addressed:

  1. Missing header information
  2. Missing phone numbers
  3. Missing voter names
  4. Too many columns in the polling place patch data
  5. Multiple phone number fields
  6. Identical header names across multiple columns
  7. Missing voter ID or primary ID fields
  8. First and last names combined in a single field (solution: use "Text to Columns" in Excel to separate them)
  9. Too many combined characters in the headers of the householded list
  10. Blank rows

The outgoing center data (pre-call) also has problems:

  1. Missing required miscellaneous field information
  2. Blank spreadsheet
  3. Improperly formatted or jumbled data file
  4. Missing multiple voter first names (if multi-voter)
  5. Missing question columns compared to the actual script
  6. Center cannot download the file or gets an error on download

For the incoming center data (post-call), issues include:

  1. Header names that are misspelled, missing, or incorrect
  2. The Q99 column needs to be deleted
  3. Skip logic was not disabled
  4. The Spoketo ID field is blank

The key is to systematically address each of these data quality issues to ensure the information is clean, complete, and properly formatted for effective processing.