Overview
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Database Creation
Based in the UAE, a leading provider of news and business information in the Middle East covering fourteen countries.
Challenge: To create an online business directory with easy retrieval features.
Data Direct carried out the following activities to meet the objectives of the project.
- Collect hardcopy and CD directories from different industry segments throughout Middle East
- Define the field and characters for capturing these records
- Data Capture them with industry sector information following a pre-defined pattern and quality check
- Sort the industry segments to arrive at a conclusive list of industries
- De-dup this captured database to arrive at unique records and standardize the industry segments
- Clean and standardize the previous database of client on the basis of predefined business rules
- De-dup the previous database of client with the newly captured database and arrive at a unique enriched data list
- Follow NAICS coding to standardize the complete database for easy retrieval purposes
Approximately 800,000 records were captured from various sources. This was then standardized and de-duplicated. A final data count of 250,000 new records with NAICS classification codes were handed to client at the end of the project.