Data Preparation in the Big Data Era /

Preparing and cleaning data is notoriously expensive, prone to error, and time consuming: the process accounts for roughly 80% of the total time spent on analysis. As this O'Reilly report points out, enterprises have already invested billions of dollars in big data analytics, so there's gr...

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Main Author: Castanedo, Federico (Author)
Corporate Author: Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.
Edition:1st edition.
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