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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data. When you have big data, what you really want is to extract the real value of the intelligence contained within those possibly-zettabytes of would-be information.

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Unlock The Power of Your Data With These 19 Big Data & Data Analytics Books

datapine

An excerpt from a rave review : “I would definitely recommend this book to everyone interested in learning about data from scratch and would say it is the finest resource available among all other Big Data Analytics books.”. If we had to pick one book for an absolute newbie to the field of Data Science to read, it would be this one.

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Building Better Data Models to Unlock Next-Level Intelligence

Sisense

Here at Sisense, we think about this flow in five linear layers: Raw This is our data in its raw form within a data warehouse. We follow an ELT ( E xtract, L oad, T ransform) practice, as opposed to ETL, in which we opt to transform the data in the warehouse in the stages that follow.