How can I develop useful machine learning algorithms on complex data sets and models – without the heavy lift of engineering everything from scratch? Generative AI represents a step-change increase in the speed of analysis, but the utility of even the best GenAI tools are still constrained by the quality of the data and data models analyzed.
No one wants to build their data infrastructure from scratch. Thankfully open cloud standards (the “modern data stack”) and popular programming languages like Python and SQL give data teams a massive head start toward useful, actionable and ML-ready data. A growing number of commercial data integration tools like Fivetran, Talend, SoundCommerce, Matillion and Stitch offer users the ability to leverage and expand shared libraries of mapping and modeling logic, presenting the opportunity to greatly accelerate data time to value and analytics time to insights.
As with Asimov’s Imperial Library on Trantor, there are major advantages to using commercial data integration tools or software applications that offer open-source or community-maintained libraries of transformation and mapping logic.
First, these tools can help businesses save time and money by providing pre-built components, connectors, and transformations that can be easily integrated into their ETL or ELT workflows. This can reduce the need for custom development and testing, and speed up the overall development process.
Second, these tools can help businesses improve the quality and accuracy of their data integrations by providing a library of pre-built components and transformations that have been tested and validated by the community. This can help reduce errors and improve the reliability of data pipelines.
Third, platforms that allow end-users to use and contribute to ETL or ELT code written by other users can help foster collaboration and innovation within the data integration community. Users can share their own custom components and transformations, as well as learn from others and contribute to the development of the platform.
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