{"id":40105,"date":"2026-04-02T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/data-professionals-how-much-of-your-week-honestly-goes-into-just-cleaning-messy-data\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:45:18","slug":"data-professionals-how-much-of-your-week-honestly-goes-into-just-cleaning-messy-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/data-professionals-how-much-of-your-week-honestly-goes-into-just-cleaning-messy-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Professionals \u2014 How Much Of Your Week Honestly Goes Into Just Cleaning Messy Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hello fellow data enthusiasts,<\/p>\n<p>As a first-year data science student, I was truly taken aback by the level of disorganization I encountered when working with real datasets for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious about your experiences:<\/p>\n<p>How much of your workday do you dedicate to data preparation and cleaning versus actual analysis?<\/p>\n<p>What types of issues do you face most often? (Missing values, duplicates, inconsistent formats, encoding problems, or something else?)<\/p>\n<p>How do you manage these challenges? Excel, OpenRefine, pandas scripts, or another tool?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not here to sell anything; I\u2019m simply trying to understand if my experience is common or if I just happened to get stuck with some bad datasets. \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>I would greatly appreciate honest feedback from professionals in the field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Turbulent_Way_0134\"> \/u\/Turbulent_Way_0134 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1sadsw6\/data_professionals_how_much_of_your_week_honestly\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1sadsw6\/data_professionals_how_much_of_your_week_honestly\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-40105 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='40105' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-40105 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-40105 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello fellow data enthusiasts, As a first-year data science student, I was truly taken aback by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}