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Data Terminology - Part I

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As new technologies emerge and the data landscape evolves, it鈥檚 easy to get lost in the sea of jargon. Terms like data wrangling, data lake, ETL and data democratization are thrown around frequently, but what do they all mean and how do they relate to one another?

In my next 2 posts, I鈥檒l break down and compare some of the what I鈥檝e seen as commonly used data terms using a visualization bring clarity to the words. Through these posts, I hope you will get a clearer understanding of how all this terminology fits into the broader data ecosystem.

In this first post, I will focus on the terminology that happens before analysis even starts. Many people have said that 80% of the work in data happens in this part and if the amount of terminology is any indication, they would definitely be correct! 馃槃