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December 2019, Vol. 246, No. 12
Swimming in the Data Lake: Analyzing Pipeline Records Discrepancies Efficiently
In the last two decades, the pipeline transmission industry has been digitizing paper records within geographic information systems (GIS), and creating a pipeline systems of record. This effort, while being effective in creating a GIS representation of the assets, has resulted in data that does not meet the accuracy demands of the increasingly complex and stringent regulatory environment.