A recently emerged category of technologies helps to meet the challenges with business-friendly tools for data integration and preparation. When your analytics projects spend more time finding and fixing data than analyzing the data, you really need to make a change. Learn about the tools and techniques that can help individuals and teams—both business and technical—to cleanse, combine, format, and sample data for analytics.
You Will Learn
- The common challenges of data preparation in the age of big data
- Techniques for data preparation that improve both speed and quality of analytics
- The data management and governance benefits of data preparation technologies
- The landscape of tools and technologies for modern data preparation
- To identify the data that is best suited to your analytic needs
- To understand the data and the challenges inherent in that data
- To define and specify data cleansing, formatting, and blending needs
- To understand and apply principles of iterative and adaptive data preparation
Geared To
Business managers, business analysts, data analysts, and data scientists who need to accelerate and simplify data preparation activities; BI and analytics developers who face the daily challenges of complex data preparation; technical managers and architects who need to integrate data preparation technologies into the BI and analytics toolkit; everyone who struggles with getting the right data in the right forms for effective analytics.