Data management a chore? These three tips can improve your data relationship - Watson

In a 2016 The New York Times article about the challenges facing data scientists, one was quoted as saying, "We really need better tools so we can spend less time on data wrangling and get to the sexy stuff."1 Manually converting or mapping raw data into data that can generate actionable insights is an important but repetitive task that takes a huge amount of time. Even simple terminology used to define the task of dealing with colossal amounts of modern data makes it sound like something of a chore; a data wrangler or data janitor. The "sexy stuff" is analysis and modeling to enrich the data relationship. The key to any good relationship is understanding--prompted by, based on, or demonstrating comprehension, intelligence, discernment, and sentiment.