Data

The recent developments in database architectures and storage methods have not necessarily made life any easier. We can store data in various encoded forms, as arrays, as hierarchies, in large quantities, and so on. The core problem of bringing data together for analysis has not necessarily been helped, despite the…

Big Data: 70 Amazing Free Data Sources You Should Know for 2017 Every great data visualization starts with good and clean data. Most of people believe that collecting big data would be a rough thing, but it’s simply not true. There are thousands of free data sets available online, ready…

Treasure Data primarily addresses data connection, ingestion and integration issues via a cloud based service. It also comes with some add on tools for analysis and the creation of data processing workflows. With the number and variety of data sources most businesses access only set to increase, the problem of…

Article sponsored by Sisense:  Businesses are gaining insights from data that simply were not possible just a few years ago. This capability is powered by a new breed of data visualisation tools, and the ability to morph complex data into a form that is suitable for analytical purposes. While most…

Paxata Review Summary Paxata is a surprisingly easy to use data preparation platform enabling business users, analysts and others to access and prepare data for their own diverse needs. The increasing speed, diversity, complexity and volume of data mean that traditional approaches to data preparation are no longer adequate, and…

Talend Open Source Data Integrator provides multiple solutions for data integration, both open source and commercial editions. Talend offers an Eclipse-based interface, drag-and-drop design flow, and broad connectivity with more than 400 pre-configured application connectors to bridge between databases, mainframes, file systems, web services, packaged enterprise applications, data warehouses, OLAP…

Led Zeppelin were Dazed and Confused in the 1960s, and it would seem that many execs in large organizations feel the same way about big data, and particularly the value end of big data – analytics. An Actian survey reveals some interesting facts: 32% of CEOs were “completely confident” in…

Datawatch Review Summary Datawatch provides a data to visualization platform that provides connection to a very large and diverse set of data sources. It does the difficult things like extracting formatted data from invoices or PDFs, as well as accessing the somewhat more straight forward files, databases and other structured…

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…