Pentaho Data Integration Cookbook Second Edition

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.

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The Visualize perspective ...