Chapter 12: Data Fusion and Data Integration
The popular understanding of data pre-processing goes hand in hand with data cleaning. Although data cleaning is a major and important part of data preprocessing, there are other important areas regarding this subject. In this chapter, we will learn about two of those important areas: data fusion and data integration. In short, data fusion and integration have a lot to do with mixing two or more sources of data for analytic goals.
First, we will learn about the similarities and differences between data fusion and data integration. After that, we will learn about six frequent challenges regarding data fusion and data integration. Then, by looking at three complete analytic examples, we will get to encounter these challenges and deal with them.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- What are data fusion and data integration?
- Frequent challenges regarding data fusion and integration
- Example 1...
