So I built this data-cleaning tool, which started when I was in college and we were doing quantitative research and my thesis pattern and I were struggling to fix the formats and duplicate information in the data that we have gathered. I've also been working with our parents’ small realty business data for a while, and one thing I kept hearing was how much time gets wasted on cleaning up messy spreadsheets before they're actually usable.
So I started asking to different business owners through reddit and linkedin about the similar pain point they have been experiencing when it comes to data cleaning, which are duplicate customer records, phone numbers in five different formats, email typos like "gmial.com", names in ALL CAPS or all lowercase. The kind of stuff that makes you question everything when you're trying to send out a campaign or generate a report.
So I built Validata to handle the repetitive cleanup work automatically:
- Finds and removes duplicate records
- Fixes common email typos and validates formatting
- Standardizes phone numbers to one consistent format
- Converts names to proper case
- 20,000 row limits
The whole process is just upload CSV → review the changes → download clean file. Usually takes a few minutes instead of hours of manual work. I'm planning on adding more features in the future if more users would find this very helpful in cleaning their data.
Let me try and text it.