Data cleansing (aka data cleaning or data scrubbing) is the act of making system data ready for analysis by removing inaccuracies or errors. This process prevents questionable and costly business decisions based on messy data. Data volumes and sources have grown much bigger and are expected to scale up even quicker. Companies wish to access […]
Case Study: PrecisionProfile Advances Healthcare Analytics with Improved Data Preparation
There’s one phrase that people never want to hear from their doctor: “I’m sorry, but you have cancer.” According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year and 609,640 people will die from the disease. Fortunately, and despite these statistics, many types […]
Maximizing the Value of Data for Your Health Care Organization
Click to learn more about author Helena Schwenk. The data value chain goes all the way from data capture and collection to reporting and sharing of information and actionable insights. As data doesn’t differentiate between industries, different sectors go through the same stages to gain value from it. There are, however, some challenges that are […]
ETL vs. Data Preparation
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) technologies, managed exclusively by IT, have until recently been the primary tool used to combine data from multiple sources and thus provide the ability to drive important business decision making for organizations. But, with the advent of self-service data preparation, business users and subject matter experts (SMEs) can find those […]
Fundamentals of Self-Service Business Intelligence
It’s clear that there is considerable recent market movement towards self-service business intelligence (SSBI) in the numerous vendor offerings available. There is also a growing concern among the Data Science community that ordinary business users may misunderstand or misinterpret the available data, leading to incorrect results. Experienced data scientists have a tremendous ability to analyze, […]
What Is Data Preparation?
Data preparation describes the process of getting data ready for use in analytics. In the past, data preparation was a time-consuming task handled by the IT team, involving “data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL), access to data warehouses and data marts, and lots of complicated massaging and manipulation of data across other data sources,” says […]
Metadata Management and Analytics: What is the Intersection?
Metadata Management implies a set of activities, which administer data for better usage and outcomes. Thus, this practice involves establishing stringent roles, responsibilities, policies, and processes to ensure that data-driven information is available, accessible, sharable, and maintainable across an organization for the best analysis and application of such information in daily business. In that sense, Metadata […]
Improving Data Pipelines with DataOps
Click to learn more about author Joe DosSantos. It was only a few years ago that BI and data experts excitedly claimed that petabytes of unstructured data could be brought under control with data pipelines and orderly, efficient data warehouses. But as big data continued to grow and the amount of stored information increased every […]
Data Preparation Need Not Be Cumbersome or Time Consuming
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Data drives decisions and, in today’s competitive business environment, the kind of fact-based decisions achieved through advanced analytics are mandatory. These data-driven decisions ensure that a business does not make a misstep or have to guess at forecasts, plans, and the root cause of problems. But, with […]
Case Study: Polaris Puts Data Analysis in the Service of Defeating Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is believed to be the third-largest criminal activity in the world, according to the FBI. The Department of Homeland Security advises that industries around the world including agriculture, hospitality, restaurant, and domestic work, as well as prostitution, often take advantage of modern slavery. Those pulled into this underworld are often held in isolation […]