r/datacleaning
5k members
r/datacleaning is a subreddit with 5k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses data cleaning, data cleansing, office cleaning, csv, and machine learning.
Data scientists can spend up to 80 percent of their time correcting data errors before extracting value from the data.
We at /r/datacleaning are interested in data cleaning as a preprocessing step to data mining. This subreddit is focused on advances in data cleaning research, data cleaning algorithms, and data cleaning tools. Related topics that we are interested in include: databases, statistics, machine learning, data mining, AI, visualization, etc.
Popular Themes in r/datacleaning
#1
Solution Requests
: "Data extraction from scanned documents"
26 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to Engineer and Cleanse your data prior to Machine Learning | Analytics | Data Science"
25 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Bad data guide : problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them."
9 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "End-To-End Data Preparation with my new open source project: https://github.com/kuwala-io/kuwala"
9 posts
#5
Money Talk
: "Data Quality Analysts: Talk to us about data quality issues, get a $50 Amazon gift card!"
1 post
#6
News
: "Why scraping public pages is legal in the US"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/datacleaning
#1
Data Cleaning
: "Data Cleaning is one of the basic and important technique used in data preprocessing. Following article explains about the different Data Cleaning methods"
102 posts
#2
Data Cleansing
: "Best Practices for Effective Data Cleansing: A Guide for Businesses"
40 posts
#3
Office Cleaning
18 posts
#4
Csv
: "How to Clean Csv Data at the Command Line | Part 2"
13 posts
#5
Machine Learning
: "How to Engineer and Cleanse your data prior to Machine Learning | Analytics | Data Science"
12 posts
#6
Data Quality
: ""Data Quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion a year"- a report from 2002."
11 posts
#7
Excel
: "Working on an offline Excel data-cleaning desktop app"
11 posts
#8
Python
: "Data Science for Sports Injuries Using R, Python, and Weka"
10 posts
#9
R
: "Data Science foR SpoRts InjuRies Using R, Python, and Weka"
9 posts
#10
Data Science
: "The Rise of Data Science"
9 posts
Member Growth in r/datacleaning
Yearly
+474 members(10.1%)
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Last updated: June 13, 2026