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Unifying Data Into a Single Source of Truth for Cumul.io With Panoply.io

Introduction

Being someone who works in the field of data visualization, I have seen my colleagues have 'the talk' with customers about data preparation all too often. It's a common pain point for anyone who needs a layer of analytics and visualizations for the data they’ve accumulated. It’s perfectly normal to arrive at this stage only to notice that data is distributed across different places, they don’t match in some cases, and overall look messy. 

Luckily, there are plenty of tools to help unify and clean data in a meaningful way. In this article, I've decided to demonstrate how such a tool would work together with a data visualization tool. I've decided to use Cumul.io (get a free trial) as my data visualization technology, and Panoply.io (get a free trial) as our data modeling tool.

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Why Your Remote Team Needs a Single Source of Truth

By now, most businesses have completely adopted the remote work model, but few can sail a smooth ship. I’d know. Having worked for businesses with chaotic processes, I know for a fact that it’s difficult to manage a remote team if you don’t have the right tools, the right resources and a single version of truth for team members to access.

Plenty has been said on tools and resources; that won’t be the primary point of this article. What business leaders need to know in deeper detail is the “single source of truth,” a relatively new term in business jargon, borrowed from information design and theory.