This post describes how to use an FME workspace to validate your data and highlight what data cleansing needs to be undertaken before putting it into Socrata. FME is a powerful tool for not only data automation, but data analysis. Here we will use it to do a ‘health check’ on our data to understand what errors, warnings and roadblocks it may cause. To better understand the rules for importing data, check out this support article that discusses importing your data into Socrata.