Tag: Data Integration
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The Big Data Iceberg
Data visualization is just the tip of the iceberg. The hard work is getting data worth reporting on…
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From Data Lakes To Data Swamps
How can organizations avoid their data lakes turning into data swamps?
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Hansel and Gretel Explain Data Lineage?
The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your version of the free Flash Player by downloading here. The importance of data lineage is in…
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Data Integration and Web Mashups on Collision Course?
Here’s an interesting Techcrunch post on “5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash your Data“. It includes Yahoo! pipes that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, but also several other ETL-like technologies. One in particular, called Proto, has the ability to mash together local data with information from the web (e.g. “map my Outlook…
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Yahoo! Pipes: ETL for the Web?
Yahoo! recently released Yahoo! Pipes, an “interactive feed aggregator and manipulator”. With a user interface reminiscent of enterprise data integration tools such as Business Objects Data Integrator, it lets anybody create RSS mashups from multiple different sources, complete with transformations and different output formats. Here’s a quick example of how to build one, courtesy of…