Dataproofer - EJ Fox

Along with Gerald Rich and the Vocativ data team, I received a Knight Prototype Fund grant to create Dataproofer - an open source tool to check data for reliability, missing data, and outliers. Built as an Electron desktop app for journalists.

Scrolling dataproofer.org — the pitch, downloads for every platform, and the Knight Foundation / Vocativ credits

The Dataproofer site — a spellchecker, for your data

❯ dataproofer Criterion\ Channel\ videos\ v1.2.0-20190621\ -\ v1.2.0-20190621.csv
 
total rows 5035
rows sampled 1259
 
Missing or duplicate column headers: passed
Numeric cells: info
String cells: info
Empty Cells: warn
Special Letters & Characters: warn
Duplicate Rows: passed
Potentially missing rows: passed
Words at their character limit: failed
Integer at its SQL upper limit: passed
Summed integer at its upper limit: passed
Small integer at its SQL upper limit: passed
Big integer at its SQL upper limit: passed
Outliers from the mean: info
Outliers from the median: info
Invalid coordinates: passed
Void coordinates: passed
 
75%
9 tests passed out of 12
 
### PROOFED ###