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How to Find and Onboard External Data Without the Headaches

As organizations understand the importance of incorporating external data with their internal data to really understand their business in context, Explorium launches its External Data Platform, to remove the challenges associated with onboarding external data.


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SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Organizations across all sectors, regions, and sizes are waking up to the fact that their internal data only give them part of the picture. To really understand their business in context, they need to incorporate external sources, too. They need to expand their range of data signals.

But, crucially, they also need to find a way to connect to the wider data ecosystem in ways that enhance their ML and analytics workflows, rather than slowing them down. Without the right technology, this is easier said than done.

External data provides scope, nuance, and context well beyond what you can gain from your internal sources.

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Who is Acquiring External Data?

From retail to real estate, manufacturing to marketing, all types of businesses now use external data.

As we discovered while polling organizations for our 2021 State of External Data Report:
"Our respondents overwhelmingly indicated that the acquisition and onboarding of external data were important to their business, with 79% calling it "very valuable" and none saying they saw no value at all."

Why is External Data Essential?

External data provides scope, nuance, and context well beyond what you can gain from your internal sources.
In tumultuous times, when there are hard-to-predict market events or trends that seem to come from nowhere, you really can't look to your own historical data - it won't tell you anything useful. In these situations, tapping into external data means you can get large volumes of very recent data to help you make sense of emerging patterns.

The Challenges of Finding and Integrating External Data

Using external data is vital, but it can be tricky. Here are some of the biggest hurdles:

Finding your way around the market

Perhaps the biggest headache when working with external data is navigating relationships with multiple vendors. Whenever you work with a new vendor, you need to verify that they are dependable, that the data they offer is high quality and in compliance, that a specific dataset is relevant to your data science question. Different vendors will have their own policies, processes, standards, conventions, and approaches to annotation and labeling. Navigating these is a huge headache.

Compatibility and integration hurdles

Every time you want to add a new dataset to your workflow, you need to make sure it's compatible with your existing data. Depending on how each one is formatted, you may need to spend considerable time cleaning and harmonizing the data before you can even think about using it for your predictive analytics.

Even after preparing and matching the external data with your internal data, organizations find that integrating the data into production pipelines can be very complex and costly. Monitoring and maintenance to avoid data drift (unexpected changes to the input data) is also required to maintain the accuracy of predictive models.

Spiraling costs

Until you've actually bought a dataset, it's hard to figure out if it definitely contains the exact information you need for your advanced analytics or ML model. The chances are, you'll need to cherry-pick the most relevant data from multiple sources and either combine these or use them to augment your original dataset.

If you have to scour through dozens or hundreds of different datasets to find all the data points you need, that's both resource-intensive and potentially very expensive. That's before you've even factored in the costs of managing your licensing agreements and contracts, or compiling risk assessments in case problems in the data create liability later on.

To make matters worse, some vendors demand payment in the form of a share in any revenue derived from the data. This is really tricky to track or measure, especially if you're using that data for AI or analytics; building models that then inform business-critical decisions. How can you be sure what role a particular slice of data had in revenue-generation? And how can you turn a profit from your predictive analytics efforts if you're constantly paying back a share of any successes, but absorbing the cost if a model leads nowhere?

There Must Be a Better Way, Right?

Yes - absolutely. The simplest, most effective way to address these problems is to seek out a unified platform that automates your connections to hundreds of external data sources. That way, you won't have to stop around multiple data vendors - you can get everything from one place.

The platform you use should pre-vet and harmonize the data sources for you, guaranteeing quality and accuracy while making integration a breeze. The best options out there will suggest the most relevant data signals, data points, and features, helping you to enhance and augment your original datasets. They'll also feed the data directly into your advanced analytics projects or ML models.

Final Thoughts: What Happens if You Lag Behind?

Remember earlier on, when we mentioned that 79% of companies we polled told us that external data is important to their business? Well, in the same survey, we also discovered that less than a third of companies have actually acted on that realization by developing a proper data acquisition strategy. This is an enormous problem, because - as we've also seen - without a plan, identifying the right data signals and managing third-party data flows can get really complicated.

Imagine that you're competing against an organization that manages the whole data acquisition and consumption process seamlessly through an external data platform. That can go from idea to identifying the data they need, to data acquisition, to advanced analytics at lightning speed. While meanwhile, every time you want to update your own ML models or predictive analytics projects, you have to go through a lengthy, complex search, negotiation, procurement, and data preparation process?

Clearly, in this scenario, you would fall behind. Your competitors would beat you to the finish line, pivoting towards lucrative markets and demographics or developing game-changing products faster than you could dream of.

This is where Explorium comes in- uncover business breakthroughs with their External Data Platform fueled by data discovery and feature engineering. Automatically access thousands of external data signals to fuel machine learning models and advanced analytics for superior business decisions.

Media Contact

Ajay Khanna, Explorium, +1 408-315-3868, [email protected]

SOURCE Explorium

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https://www.explorium.ai/

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