It will also depend on your cleaning and consolidation requirements and your approach to getting insights from data. While Excel spreadsheets are the most basic structuring tool for data wrangling, ...

Called Trifacta Wrangler, the software aims to put self-service data wrangling within reach for any professional who works with data in Excel or visual analysis tools such as Tableau.

Data rarely comes in usable form. Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis are the difference between a good data science model and garbage in, garbage out.

The free version handles files up to 100 MB in text, Excel and JSON formats.

Adam Wilson, CEO of San Francisco-based software firm Trifacta, has said federal agencies should adopt data wrangling platforms and techniques in order to expedite analysis of big data workloads ...