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Fueling Data-Driven Decision-Making with Data Validation and Enrichment Processes

Precisely

77% of data and analytics professionals say data-driven decision-making is the top goal for their data programs. Data-driven decision-making and initiatives are certainly in demand, but their success hinges on … well, the data that supports them. More specifically, the quality and integrity of that data.

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5 Helpful Extract & Load Practices for High-Quality Raw Data

Meltano

ELT is becoming the default choice for data architectures and yet, many best practices focus primarily on “T”: the transformations. But the extract and load phase is where data quality is determined for transformation and beyond. “Raw data” sounds clear. But wait, why aren’t these “best practices”?

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Mastering Batch Data Processing with Versatile Data Kit (VDK)

Towards Data Science

Data Management A tutorial on how to use VDK to perform batch data processing Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Versatile Data Ki t (VDK) is an open-source data ingestion and processing framework designed to simplify data management complexities.

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What is data processing analyst?

Edureka

Organisations and businesses are flooded with enormous amounts of data in the digital era. Raw data, however, is frequently disorganised, unstructured, and challenging to work with directly. Data processing analysts can be useful in this situation. What Does a Data Processing Analyst Do?

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Importance of Data Transformation in Business Process

Hevo

In today’s data-driven world, businesses collect and store vast amounts of data from various sources. However, raw data is often unstructured, inconsistent, and may not be immediately usable for analysis or decision-making. That’s where data transformation comes into play.

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Why SQL on Raw Data?

Rockset

Over a decade after the inception of the Hadoop project, the amount of unstructured data available to modern applications continues to increase. Moreover, despite forecasts to the contrary, SQL remains the lingua franca of data processing; today's NoSQL and Big Data infrastructure platform usage often involves some form of SQL-based querying.

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Setting up Data Lake on GCP using Cloud Storage and BigQuery

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction A data lake is a centralized and scalable repository storing structured and unstructured data. The need for a data lake arises from the growing volume, variety, and velocity of data companies need to manage and analyze.