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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration is the premier open source ETL tool, providing easy, fast, and effective ways to move and transform data. While PDI is relatively easy to pick up, it can take time to learn the best practices so you can design your transformations to process data faster and more efficiently. If you are looking for clear and practical recipes that will advance your skills in Kettle, then this is the book for you. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition guides you through the features of explains the Kettle features in detail and provides easy to follow recipes on file management and databases that can throw a curve ball to even the most experienced developers. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition provides updates to the material covered in the first edition as well as new recipes that show you how to use some of the key features of PDI that have been released since the publication of the first edition. You will learn how to work with various data sources – from relational and NoSQL databases, flat files, XML files, and more. The book will also cover best practices that you can take advantage of immediately within your own solutions, like building reusable code, data quality, and plugins that can add even more functionality. Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition will provide you with the recipes that cover the common pitfalls that even seasoned developers can find themselves facing. You will also learn how to use various data sources in Kettle as well as advanced features.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Visualizing data with AgileBI


In today's world, where customers demand faster responses and the amount of data needed to be processed has increased dramatically, traditional Business Intelligence shops have experienced pains due to the cadence at which they can deliver value. One of the largest challenges is taking those sometimes vague or misleading requirements around the transformation of source data and then conforming to the new or changing business logic.

Kettle has some built-in tools that allow for developers to work with their customers to work through the data cleansing and transforming process to determine if they are on the right track. In this recipe we will walk through how to use the Visualize perspective.

Note

The Visualize perspective is part of the AgileBI component of Kettle. The primary tool in the perspective is called Analyzer. Note that Analyzer is available in both the Community and Enterprise editions of Kettle. It is also available as part of the Enterprise edition...