In today’s world, where data powers everything, having high-quality data is essential. Accurate, consistent and reliable data forms the backbone of smart decision-making, valuable research, and smooth business operations. But keeping data in top shape isn’t always easy, with issues like missing values, inconsistencies and inaccuracies cropping up all the time. That’s where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) steps in as a game-changer for data quality.

Missing data is a common challenge, often leading to skewed analysis and shaky results. GenAI tackles this by filling in missing values, learning from patterns and correlations in the data to predict what should be there. This approach leads to more complete, usable datasets that make analysis far more accurate and trustworthy.

Many organizations deal with data coming from various sources that don’t always match up in format, structure or quality. GenAI helps by harmonizing these different datasets into a consistent format, making it easier to bring everything together in one unified data repository. This makes comprehensive analysis and smart decision-making a lot smoother.

GenAI has huge potential to transform data quality management by automating and improving tasks like data filling, cleaning, spotting outliers and even adding useful data. As more organizations realize the importance of top-quality data, GenAI will become central to getting accurate, reliable insights. With GenAI in their toolkit, businesses and researchers can find new opportunities and drive innovation in a data-focused world.

One of the challenges, though, is that many companies still don’t fully understand how AI systems make their decisions. That’s where explainable AI comes in, helping people see and trust how machine learning algorithms produce results.

Melody K. Smith

Sponsored by Access Innovations, the intelligence and the technology behind world-class explainable AI solutions.