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Big data analytics is moving on. Until recently it meant wrestling with MapReduce and glueing a dozen or more components together to make a viable big data platform. The big data analytics tools listed below ‘shrink wrap’ big data technologies to some degree and make the whole effort much more…

We visualize data in charts and graphics because we need information that is not readily available in tables of numbers or written reports. Until recently we have let the computer dictate how information has been presented to us. Computers like numbers and text. They are easily handled, don’t take up…

Self-Service Data Preparation Summary. Once upon a time data was neatly arranged into rows and columns. It was a natural format for the highly structured data that accompanied most administrative functions within the business. Sales orders, employee data, purchase orders, accounting information – each transaction was exactly the same format…

Self Service Data Preparation Platforms Summary Greater data variety pretty much translates to greater data complexity. As businesses embrace diverse data sources, so there is a pressing need to make those data more easily accessible and to combine them in ways which can add value. This variety comes in the…

Platfora Review Summary Platfora provides an end-to-end big data data discovery and exploration platform that starts at data ingestion and ends with visualisation. In many ways it is the right product at the right time. Had Platfora tried to deliver its platform just four or five years ago, it would…