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ETL

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ETL stands for Extract - Transform - Load, and it’s the process of moving data around your internal systems to get it ready for analysis. 

Data at most companies is siloed, dirty, and hard to work with: not ideal for analyzing it quickly and effectively. ETL is the process of moving, cleaning, and arranging that data in a way that makes your Data Science team happy (well, as happy as they’ll ever be).

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The process of moving data around your internal systems to get it ready for analysis.

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