Data inspections messages

When loading your file into data.world, the following warnings may be generated. These warnings will only be visible to the dataset owner and any contributors with write access to the dataset.

Warnings are informational only and may be ignored.

Geospatial

Table 1.

Description	Warning message
Country name/abbreviation actually exists	This cell does not contain a valid country name
State name actually exists	This cell does not contain a valid state name
State abbreviation actually exists	This cell does not contain a valid state abbreviation

Noise

Table 2.

Warning message	Description
This value does not look like a number.	Mostly numeric columns with rare (non-N/A) text
This value does not look like a number.	Occasional percentage or currency numbers

Numeric

Table 3.

Warning message	Description
This number looks way too [big or small]	Numeric outlier
This number looks like a placeholder	Likely noise numbers
Possible Numeric Truncation	Numeric truncation

Security/PII

Table 4.

Warning message	Description
This column may contain social security numbers	Social security numbers
This column may contain credit card numbers	Credit card numbers
This column may contain phone numbers	Phone numbers
This column may contain email addresses	Email addresses

Structural warnings

Table 5.

Warning message	Description
This column is blank	Empty Columns
This row is a duplicate of the one above it.	Duplicate Rows
Possible row truncation. The number of characters in this row could indicate that some amount of data was clipped.	Likely row truncation
Possible column truncation. The number of characters in a given field could indicate that some amount of data was clipped.	Likely column truncation
Suspiciously round number of rows. I.e. exactly 1000 rows. Perhaps this isn’t the full data, but rather a subset.	Suspiciously round numbers of rows
A column which contains mostly filled values has some small number left blank.	Rare blank cells in columns

Text

Table 6.

Warning message	Description
Possible string truncation.	String truncation
This text looks like a placeholder (i.e. qwerty, asdf)	Likely noise text
This text looks [longer or shorter] than the rest	String length outlier

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