QualityStage Standardization Testing

QualityStage is a standardization process for addresses which can be very useful when creating a highly cleansed data mart.  The “out of the box” the standardization process is fairly accurate, however there will be some data that needs additional help.  Here is the process for testing your addresses through the standard QualityStage standardization process.

Assumption: the standard process for standardizing addresses is as followed…

1. Pass the address, city, state, and postal code used the Standardization process COUNTRY.SET to determine the country of the address.
2. Separate the data set into multiple outputs for each country.
3. Pass the country dataset through the …PREP standardization process (USPREP).
4. Pass the country PREP datasets through the …ADDR and …AREA standardization processes (USADDR and USAREA).

The data we will be analyzing is as followed…

In the Designer Client, expand open the Standardization Rules folder in the Repository.

Expand open the USA folder

To start with, expand open the USPREP folder

Double click the SET

Once the Rules Management opens, select Test on the right side

Populate the input strings was the data’s address lines

Note the AddressDomain and the AreaDomain

Close the rule set tester

Close the rules management window

When it asks to exit without saving, click yes

Collapse the USPRUP folder

Expand the USADDR folder

Double click on the SET

Once the Rules Management opens, select Test on the right side

Enter in the AddressDomain provided by the USPREP test and click Test This String

Note that columns are now populated with the appropriate address attributes.

Close the rule set tester

Close the rules management window

When it asks to exit without saving, click yes

Collapse the USADDR folder

Expand the USAREA folder

Double click on the SET

Once the Rules Management opens, select Test on the right side

Enter in the AreaDomain provided by the USPREP test and click Test This String

Note that columns are now populated with the appropriate area attributes.

Sometimes, addresses or area strings have an unfamiliar format.  These will show up as an unhandled input value.  These can be handled in one of two ways.

1. Correct the data on the source so that the address and/or area can be standardized.
2. Add the unhandled pattern into the rules management override section.