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Data Preparation: Advanced Analytics to the Rescue

Demand is growing for faster, more dependable data preparation. According to a recent survey by TDWI, professionals believe there is plenty of room for improvement.

Data Digest: Managing Big Data Quality, Defining Insight, and Effective Analytics Tools

Explore governance principles to protect big data quality, the difference between analytics and insight, and tools for managing vast volumes of data.

Moving the Textual Analytics Cheese

There are plenty of natural obstacles to dealing with text, but those who feel threatened by advances in textual processing are inventing artificial obstacles as well.

Do You Understand the Knowns and Unknowns in Your Data?

Effective data preparation depends on recognizing how to handle what we know and what we don't know about a set of data. Our goal as analytics professionals is to make less unknown and more known.

Upside Briefing: Dell Statistica

Dell recently released Statistica 13.1. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing and a look at the idea of a citizen data scientist.

Datawatch Revamps Monarch for Self-Service Data Prep

Datawatch's Monarch 13.3 release adds new analytical functions and algorithms. It also bundles new automated data loading capabilities, along with an Angoss export function.

Connecting the Dots: One of Your Greatest Analytics Tools

Filling the gaps in data can mean the difference between an analytics project's success and failure. Choosing the right method is a combination of art and science that requires understanding the business, the data, and the targeted decision.

The Changing Data Warehouse Landscape

A recent market survey highlights how much the data warehousing market -- and what's meant by the term "data warehouse" -- has changed.

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