Big data revelations depend upon how well data from different incoming sources is blended. One reason why big data blending is so important is that blending enables uncommon types of data to coexist ...

“As the amount of data available to analysts continues to grow, the time and process needed to blend the data to deliver business insights becomes more challenging,” said Rick Schultz, senior vice ...

“Over 90% of analytics leaders 1 say that delays in creating the right dataset translates directly into missed revenue and profit,” said George Mathew, President and COO of Alteryx. “With Alteryx ...

Nowadays, data is extremely varied – there are many types, formats, and sources. Businesses seeking to harness the power of data are challenged by working with several data sets; pulling insights from ...

Data analytics, the science of examining an organization’s raw data with the purpose of gleaning valuable business information from it, is becoming a critical tool for today’s business managers. New ...

Google has been refining Data Studio to provide better blending capability and more flexibility in combining data. Data blending may as well be a dance craze because the capability is very popular ...

A new tutorial from Google explains how to unlock Search Console insights with Looker Studio dashboards and visualize key SEO metrics. Monitoring dashboards can help you detect issues in website ...

There's a huge gap between spreadsheets on the one hand and statistician- and data-scientist-oriented workbenches on the other. Alteryx is doing its best to fill the void. "Excel needs a BFF!," ...

At its core, analytics is all about the ability to correlate data from different sources to identify patterns that help make sense of the business. The challenge has been finding a way to gain access ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong examines how Hadoop and other big data platforms are being integrated into mainline database and development environments. It is not hard to see the interest in “big data” ...

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