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What’s Driving the Data Prep Market? TDWI Digs In

It's no secret in the analytics community that data quality is a problem. But how big a problem is it? TDWI, a respected provider of data warehousing insights, shed some light on the topic with a new report. In the "b Read more…

Data Science Operationalization in the Spotlight at Leverage Big Data ’16

How do you create business value from data science? It may be easy to answer from a theoretical standpoint, but actually turning data into business value in the real world is another matter entirely. This week, dozens of Read more…

Why Self-Service Prep Is a Killer App for Big Data

If you're embarking upon a big data analytics project, you're likely considering some sort of self-service data preparation tool to help you cleanse, transform, and standardize your data. And if you aren't, you probably Read more…

Reporter’s Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World

The big data ecosystem was on full display at last week's Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose. At the ripe old age of 10, Hadoop is still the driving force, but newer frameworks like Spark and Kafka are gaining Read more…

The Last Hadoop Data Management Tool You’ll Ever Buy?

The rise of big data has shaken up the data warehousing market, and one of the established vendors still looking to regain its footing is Informatica, which last year was taken private in a $5.3-billion leveraged buy-out Read more…

10 Questions that Will Change the Economics of Your Data Business

Hadoop’s Second Decade: Where Do We Go From Here?

As we reported last week, the first Hadoop cluster went online at Yahoo 10 years ago. The platform has enjoyed phenomenal, if improbable, growth since then. But where does it go from here? Once again, we tapped the knowl Read more…

Data Quality Trending Down? C’est La Vie

One of the biggest impediments to becoming a data-driven organization is tackling the problem of data quality. Data is often too dirty and discombobulated for use in high-end decision-making, and the increasing volume an 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…