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Six Core Data Wrangling Activities

With the growing adoption of big data infrastructure technologies like Hadoop has come increased awareness of the different activities involved in successful Hadoop-based analyses. Specifically, users have come to apprec Read more…

Conference Takes Aim at Data Enrichment Challenges

Data scientists who are interested in learning about the latest data enrichment tools and techniques may want to check out the Rich Data Summit, a one-day conference taking place in San Francisco this fall. It's the firs Read more…

Five Steps to Fix the Data Feedback Loop and Rescue Analysis from ‘Bad’ Data

Despite enterprises’ best intentions in enforcing top-down standardization of data sets, non-compliant data can easily seep in and, through aggregations, transformations, and standardizations, spread throughout the org Read more…

Big Data’s Dirty Little Secret

The twin phenomena of big data and machine learning are combining to give organizations previously unheard of predictive power to drive their businesses in new ways. But behind the big data headlines that tease us with t Read more…

Why Big Data Prep Is Booming

The big data analytics space is growing as organizations attempt to turn massive sets of data into a competitive advantage. But this trend is also driving a secondary boom in the market for data preparation tools that cl Read more…

Can Smarter Machines End the Pain and Expense of Data Wrangling?

Like Alan Turing’s vision to create smarter machines to crack the Enigma Code in World War II, we now sit at a critical juncture to solve the significant pain and expense of data wrangling that most big companies face Read more…

Has Dirty Data Met Its Match?

One of the dirty little secrets about big data is the amount of manual effort it takes to clean the data before it can be analyzed. You may have the best and brightest data scientists on your team, but unless you liberate them from the drudgeries of digital janitorial work, you aren't getting their best work. Today, the data cleansing startup Trifacta launched its first product aimed at alleviating data professionals from the burden posed by traditional data cleansing processes. Read more…

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