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Uniqueness analysis

Learn about the data in the Uniqueness analysis chart in the DQ dashboard.

The Real-Time Data Quality (DQ) Dashboard enables you to monitor the quality of data in your Reltio tenant. After selecting an entity and attributes in the DQ dashboard, you can find out about unique and common values of attributes in the Uniqueness analysis DQ chart. For more details, see Real-Time Data Quality dashboard charts and Analyze DQ dashboard charts.

Figure 1. Uniqueness analysis DQ chart

If you are a Data Analyst, Data Steward, or Business User, this information is for you! Use the metrics in this chart to identify where you may need to define specific attributes in profiles.

Note: The uniqueness metrics in this chart are calculated approximately.

Data definition

This chart provides the following metrics.
Data labelData definition
Uniqueness analysisA horizontal bar chart that identifies the relative number (rounded up) and percentage of unique and not unique values in the selected attribute:
  • Unique: Number of values that only appear once and have no duplicates.
  • Not unique: Number of values that have at least one duplicate.
Tip: Hover your mouse pointer over the blue or magenta block in the bar chart to display a tooltip with the counts and percentage of unique and not unique values.

Data analysis scenarios

So, armed with these amazing metrics, what can you deduce about your data? is it unique?

No data

You can view at a glance when there are no profiles with values in the selected attribute type. If the uniqueness analysis chart has an empty state message, Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep.

All good data

You can view at a glance when all of your profiles contain unique values in the selected attribute type. If the uniqueness analysis chart has a blue or magenta bar, you have good data and can use the chart to analyze the uniqueness.