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Practical Predictive Analytics
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Practical Predictive Analytics

by Ralph Winters
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
576 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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External data

Data can also be augmented by integrating a company's internal data combined with data obtained from a variety of sources, including government data, social media feeds, and data purchased from vendors. Often demographic, behavioral, and risk data is purchased separately, and then merged within the data warehouse.

Beware of the daunting task of data integration. A key problem encountered in this task is being able to associate data from a variety of disparate sources with each other. This is less of a problem when dealing with internal data, but when dealing with external data you may have to use alternative methods available to perform matching, such as using fuzzy match (similarity) algorithms or performing entity extraction ...

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ISBN: 9781785886188Supplemental Content