data scrubbing

The process of making computer data more uniform or accurate. Aw man, the files we merged are now in two jumbled styles. They're in need of some serious data scrubbing. A: "How's the data scrubbing going?" B: "Hoo boy, it's gonna take longer than I thought—a lot of text from that one source parsed strangely." We can't work with these files as they are, so get someone to do the data scrubbing so we can make sense of them.