Data Cleansing and Analysis and the Popular Tools Available Online for Free

Do you clearly understand the meaning of data cleansing or data analysis? If you are even a little bit confused, let us help you with that. Understand both the terms separately.

Data analysis is a process in which raw data is obtained and is converted into some useful information to ease the decision-making process. In the process of data analysis, the data is first inspected, then cleansed and transformed and finally it is modeled in the form of useful information. Data cleansing is a part of Data Analysis only.

Data Cleansing or Database cleansing is a methodological process used to detect and modify/correct the record set’s inaccurate data. In the process of data cleansing, the software identifies the data that is inaccurate, incomplete, irrelevant or incorrect, and then delete or modify the identified waste/incorrect data.

Data Analysis and Cleansing techniques are widely used for contact discovery in CRM. Contact discovery in CRM means the searching of the recent and validated demographic information for the companies or private individuals. By this contact discovery, the companies get Leads, Accounts or Contacts.

If you want to use the Data Analytics for your business, but you are afraid, as you don’t code so well, there is a good news for you. There are a number of Data Analysis Tools available for free which can be used to understand the whole process and to meet your ends. Here, we are providing you a list of some free data analysis software’s, which are the best known for Exploratory Data Analysis.

1. Microsoft Excel/Spreadsheet:

Excel is an indispensable part of the Data analytics industry. This is an excellent data analysis software still used for solving the data analysis related problems. You can easily learn to use this data analysis tool by using some tutorial, free resource, community support etc. It has a support for all the important features like data visualization, data summarization, data wrangling etc.

2. Trifacta:

This data analysis software challenges the traditional data cleansing methods. Unlike Excel, there is no restriction on the size of data. Its major features like inbuilt algorithms, chart recommendations, analysis insights etc. help to prepare the reports in no time.

3. Weka:

Weka data analysis tool is very easy to use and learn. This is a machine learning tool. The interface of this software is very intuitive. You can do a variety of tasks with the help of this tool like data classification, clustering, regression, visualization, pre-processing etc.  This amazing data analysis software is built in Java.

4. Orange:

This tool is very cool to use and can be learned with the help of a number of youtube tutorials available online. This data analysis tool specifically helps in interactive data mining and data visualization tasks. It has an extensive library for performing different data analytics tasks.

5. Data Wrapper:

Data Wrapper is a sort of basic software, best for those who are new to the BI work. It helps its user in lightning fast visualization with the help of building tools like a line chart, column chart, stacked bar chart, maps, pie chart etc. As said, this data analysis software is very basic in nature.

We hope that these data analysis tools will help you in your data analysis tasks. If these tools fall short to meet your ends. You can opt for some advanced data analysis softwares like a tableau, qlikview etc. As all of these softwares are browser-enabled, you will not need to part your storage space and install the software.  Please share your knowledge about other data analysis tools and techniques if you know better.