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What is a Data Pipeline?

Jet Global

The key components of a data pipeline are typically: Data Sources : The origin of the data, such as a relational database , data warehouse, data lake , file, API, or other data store. This can include tasks such as data ingestion, cleansing, filtering, aggregation, or standardization.

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Create an end-to-end data strategy for Customer 360 on AWS

AWS Big Data

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

In our modern digital world, proper use of data can play a huge role in a business’s success. Datasets are exploding at an ever-accelerating rate, so collecting and analyzing data to maximum effect is crucial. Companies and businesses focus a lot on data collection in order to make sure they can get valuable insights out of it.

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Data Cataloging in the Data Lake: Alation + Kylo

Alation

By dramatically lowering the cost of storing data for analysis, it ushered in an era of massive data collection. By changing the cost structure of collecting data, it increased the volume of data stored in every organization. Get the latest data cataloging news and trends in your inbox.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Make Sense of IoT Data

BizAcuity

Data is only useful when it is actionable for which it needs to be supplemented with context and creativity. Traditional methods of analyzing structured data are not designed to efficiently process these large amounts of real-time data that is collected from IoT devices.

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Building Robust Data Pipelines: 9 Fundamentals and Best Practices to Follow

Alation

Sources can include analytics data regarding user behavior, transactional data from ecommerce websites, and third-party data from other organizations. It’s worth noting that a data pipeline may have more than one data source. Ingestion tools are connected to various data sources.