Paxata Review - why 3 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Apr 08, 2022

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What is Paxata?

Paxata, now acquired by DataRobot and integrated into its Data Preparation Tool, is a self-service data preparation software solution that allows users to explore, transform, profile, and shape datasets at an enterprise scale for machine learning models and AI applications. The platform helps data analysts prepare data for analytics, and some of its features are discussed below:

• Self-Service Data Prep: With DataRobot Data Prep, users can enjoy a purpose-built application that helps citizen data scientists and analysts to prepare data and deploy pipelines for machine learning initiatives with little coding experience, collaborating on an intuitive point and click user interface and leveraging powerful data cleansing, enriching, and shaping features.
• Acceleration Through AI Assistance: DataRobot Data Preparation has embedded NLP-based algorithms that detect words or phrases that sound alike or have similar spellings and suggest clusters that could be standardized to commonly-used values. Also, the software automatically combines datasets for feature enrichment and detects file types at ingestion time.
• Enterprise-Grade Data Prep: With DataRobot Data Preparation powered by Apache Spark for big data, users can record data preparation steps automatically for data lineage tracking and plan to reuse the steps. Also, users can automate and schedule data prep projects at regular intervals and create a data flow by automatically detecting and including preceding data prep steps.

Paxata was founded in 2012 and was acquired by DataRobot in 2019. Paxata was headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA, and had an estimated 100 employees.

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Who is it best for?

The typical customers include the following business size: Small, medium and large size businesses.

What is the actual cost?

ITQlick pricing score is 4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Paxata.

Pros

• DataRobot Data Preparation Tool has a no-code interface that non-technical users can leverage
• The software has excellent learning resources for users
• DataRobot Data Preparation Tool is generally easy to use and has an intuitive user interface
• The software provides the history of data for easy traceability

Cons

• The predictive abilities of the DataRobot Data Preparation Tool can be improved
• Iterative processing of data on the platform is not a one-click operation

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of Paxata vs alternative software solutions.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Is Paxata right for you or your business?

Paxata, now DataRobot Data Preparation Tool, is a flexible self-service data preparation software solution built for data analysts, data engineers, business analysts, and IT professionals. The software helps users transform and shape data at an enterprise scale. Some notable clients that use DataRobot Data Preparation include Lenovo, McLaren, and Okta.