How to improve your environmental data confidence

When your environmental data is handled by multiple team members, labs, and stakeholders, it can be easy to feel unsure about its quality. On top of that, you need to cross-check against regulatory requirements. Reviewing and editing your data takes time, leading to project delays and compromising efficiency.

To improve your data confidence, here are some steps you can keep in mind:

Automation: Automated data entry and loading for most teams can drastically reduce the likelihood of error. It’s also important to keep everyone on track with consistent workflows.
Consistency: Consistency in data collection, loading, storage and reporting means any staff member can easily and quickly get up to speed with data for any site. Data is not held captive to an individual’s unique (if impressive) way of managing it.
Continuous Improvement: Even the most well-documented and adopted processes could use a review to ensure continuous improvement.
Verify, verify, verify: Tracking QA and regulatory requirements can be deceptively challenging. Have your data cross-reviewed for compliance to ensure it meets environmental standards, and compare it to past data if necessary. Make sure to keep your team up to date with the situation throughout the verification process.
Conceptual Site Model: Your conceptual site model should be represented in your data so it can be easily filtered by aquifer, location, zones, analytes of interest, and more.
Analyse and report: When it comes to data confidence, understanding is key. Being able to easily graph, map, tabulate, and analyse your data means greater data understanding—whether for stakeholders or team members.

Using the right data management tools and procedures improves your (and your team’s!) data confidence.

Here’s how ESdat upgrades your data, helping you stay on top of project deadlines and work more efficiently:

Automation: ESdat supports automated data validation processes, drastically reducing the time spent on verification and eliminating common data management mistakes. Furthermore, data is automatically loaded into corresponding projects and regularly updated based on the latest results from your lab or the field.
Built-in regulatory guidelines: ESdat has a pre-compiled library of global regulatory guidelines and lets you add your own environmental standards or site limits as needed. You’ll also receive real-time alerts for guideline exceedances, making it easier to keep track of regulatory requirements and stay compliant.
Easy reporting: With ESdat, you can present your data in various formats, from exceedance tables to maps, graphs, and bore logs, while maintaining the highest standard of quality assurance with our built-in data validation tools. You can also share your data across various platforms like Excel, Power Query, PowerBI, and ArcGIS.

Don’t let a lack of data confidence hold you back; get in touch with an ESdat data expert from EarthScience Information Systems today: https://esdat.net/contact-us/