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Data Quality analysis
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
Data Quality analysis
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
Working with Data Quality analyses
This topic describes the basic tasks that apply to each type of Data Quality diagnostic.
Augment
The Augment diagnostic enables you to add property-specific building information to your portfolio when data is missing or when confidence in the data is low.
Enhance with our property-specific values and/or user-specified values
After assessing the completeness and reasonability of your exposure data with the Validate, Score, and Benchmark diagnostics in Data Quality, run the Augment diagnostic to improve the data quality of any problem areas you may have identified.

Using Touchstone online Help
You can access the top-level or context-sensitive Touchstone online help from within the application or from the Client Portal. You can then search for content, bookmark pages, and generate output to other formats.
Import data from external sources
You can import exposure data, map layers, projects, and reinsurance packages from external sources into Touchstone databases.
Projects and exposure views
Projects are a useful way to organize your data. They contain exposure views that contain the data that you want to focus on.
Geospatial analysis
Geospatial analysis enables you to perform a deterministic risk analysis with your own view of risk on accumulations of property exposures and workers' compensation information in given areas exposed to natural and man-made catastrophes.
Exposure data validation
Verisk provides a reference containing information about Touchstone exposure data.
Data Quality analysis
The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
- Data Quality analysis
  The most effective way to assess and enhance portfolio-level or contract-level catastrophe exposure data is to use Touchstone's Data Quality diagnostics. These diagnostics enable you to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the exposure data you are using for analyses and supplement that data when it is missing or weak.
  - Working with Data Quality analyses
    This topic describes the basic tasks that apply to each type of Data Quality diagnostic.
    - Creating a new Data Quality analysis
      You can select multiple exposure views and contracts as the targets for a Data Quality analysis.
    - Validate and score
      This diagnostic enables you to assess and quantify the completeness and reasonability of property location data, primary and secondary risk characteristics, and replacement values within a portfolio.
    - Benchmark
      The Benchmark diagnostic enables you to review and compare your exposure data to industry data contained in our Industry Exposure Database, and to attributes such as construction and occupancy.
    - Augment
      The Augment diagnostic enables you to add property-specific building information to your portfolio when data is missing or when confidence in the data is low.
      - Guidelines for data consistency with our property-specific database
        The following tables describe how Data Quality Augment defines consistency of data with data in our property-specific database (PSD). Augment does not generate consistency statistics for all fields, such as for latitude, longitude, building replacement value, and gross area; if the data is inconsistent, Augment updates it.
      - Enhance with our property-specific values and/or user-specified values
        After assessing the completeness and reasonability of your exposure data with the Validate, Score, and Benchmark diagnostics in Data Quality, run the Augment diagnostic to improve the data quality of any problem areas you may have identified.
        Performing an Augmentation enhancement
        This topic describes how to augment data when running a Data Quality analysis.
        Modifying augmentation rules
        Before configuring a Data Quality Augmentation enhancement, you can create or modify rule sets that enable you to augment or replace key location information with our Industry Exposure Database values or with user-specified values.
        Interpreting augmentation results
        There are several views available after augmenting your Data Quality analysis.
    - Defining analysis filters
      The Analysis Filters settings in Data Quality enable you to narrow the breadth of the exposure data being analyzed.
    - Grouping results
      The Group By function enables you to create sub-groups of results by column headers.
  - Working with rule sets
    The Validate Data and Augment diagnostics use rule sets to assess and update key location attributes that can affect modeled losses.
  - Viewing and exporting or copying Data Quality results
    This topic describes how to view and export or copy Data Quality results.
  - Reference: Data Quality analysis
Hazard analysis
Hazard analysis enable you to identify the relevant catastrophe hazards for locations in your exposure data.
About loss analyses
Touchstone enables you to model catastrophic (CAT) events to estimate property and workers' compensation losses.
Reinsurance
The Reinsurance Program Manager enables you to create, import, and manage reinsurance programs.
Touchstone data export types
Touchstone enables you to export different types of data.
Activity Monitor
The Activity Monitor displays the status of all activities.
Managing data sources
Use Data Source Management to manage Touchstone databases.
User model management
Use User Model Management to build custom non-Verisk models and seamlessly integrate them into Touchstone.
Model Builder
Administration Console
User interface
Reference: Common Help topics

Enhance with our property-specific values and/or user-specified values

After assessing the completeness and reasonability of your exposure data with the Validate, Score, and Benchmark diagnostics in Data Quality, run the Augment diagnostic to improve the data quality of any problem areas you may have identified.

Augment uses two services to enhance the quality of your data:

Location-specific data lookup: These rules enable you to compare exposure data for key fields (for example, geocode information or primary and secondary risk characteristics) to data contained in our property-specific database (PSD). Depending on the rules you select when you configure the analysis, the diagnostic augments your data with data of higher quality that it finds in the PSD.
Replacement valuation: These rules use our PSD to retrieve replacement values calculated by ISO HomeValue and ISO 360Value property valuation services. If the retrieved values fall within user-specified ranges, Augment can use them to enhance the replacement values in your exposure data and to scale the corresponding coverage and limit values as well.

Note:

Our PSD, which compiles information from multiple industry databases, including ISO's Specific Property Information (SPI) database, is available under separate license. With this license, you can use Augment's Enhance with Property-Specific Data Values option to replace location attributes with our PSD values. In addition, by default, Touchstone includes, in Data Quality analysis results, a summary of the consistency of your exposure data with data in our PSD; you can also choose to include detailed information about the consistency of your data. Without a license to this database, you cannot augment geocoding, primary risk characteristics, secondary risk characteristics, or building replacement values with our PSD values. However, you can use Augment's Enhance with User-specified Values option to clear geocoding data and replace primary risk characteristics, secondary risk characteristics, and replacement values with values that you specify.