Remove the repeated entry
R04 repeats R02: the same member, club and attendance. Keep one copy.
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A cleaning assistant has three suggestions for a club table. Which changes make the data more trustworthy?
Builder · Year 7Data cleaning, review and undo
These sample records count sessions attended out of five. Review the suggested changes before treating the edited table as evidence.
R04 repeats R02: the same member, club and attendance. Keep one copy.
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Change “music” in R03 to “Music”, matching R06.
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Put zero sessions in R05 so every row has a number.
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The original stays untouched. Approve or reject a suggestion to begin.
| Record | Member | Club | Sessions |
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| Record | Member | Club | Sessions |
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The average uses known values only. Missing means we don’t know, not that the member attended zero sessions.
Fictional attendance records and prepared cleaning suggestions. There is no live AI or shared database. A curriculum practice example, not student work.
A suggested fix needs a reason. Removing a duplicate or standardising a spelling differs from inventing a missing value. Keeping the original and a change log makes mistakes reversible.
Approve the zero suggestion and watch the average. Then undo it. What do you know about that member’s attendance—and what is still unknown?