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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE - Third Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788292436

Pages 500 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Concepts

Data Processing

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration

2. Getting Started with Transformations

3. Creating Basic Task Flows

4. Reading and Writing Files

5. Manipulating PDI Data and Metadata

6. Controlling the Flow of Data

7. Cleansing, Validating, and Fixing Data

8. Manipulating Data by Coding

9. Transforming the Dataset

10. Performing Basic Operations with Databases

11. Loading Data Marts with PDI

12. Creating Portable and Reusable Transformations

13. Implementing Metadata Injection

14. Creating Advanced Jobs

15. Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line

16. Best Practices for Designing and Deploying a PDI Project

Chapter 7. Cleansing, Validating, and Fixing Data

You already have a set of tools to manipulate data. This chapter offers different ways of applying the learned concepts to cleanse data and also deal with invalid data, either by discarding it or fixing it.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

Standardizing information and improving the quality of data
Introducing some steps useful for data cleansing
Dealing with non-exact matches
Validating data
Treating invalid data by splitting and merging streams

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