1. Intro

welcome to the quick user’s guide to anatella anatella is part of the “timi suitetm ” that is an integrated set of tools designedto solve advanced analytics, big data and business intelligenceproblems the acronym “timi” stands for “the intelligent mining machine (timi)” anatella is a data manipulation tool, also known as “etl tool” (“etl” is the acronym of “extract, transform & load”) that is designed for analytical and “predictive datamining” tasks the name “anatella” is the contraction of “analytical etl” indeed anatella is the first etl tool of its kind it’s the only etl tool designed specifically for analytical tasks on large data volume anatella offers some features that are unique and extremely valuable in this field (e g meta data free data transformations, ability to handle tables with more than 50000 columns, etc ) before any data mining activity, before building any predictive model, the first task to accomplish by the data miner is to place all the available data into the proper format (when using timi or stardust, it usually means obtaining one single very large dataset) once you have a dataset, you can analyze it with timi and/or stardust