Cleaning Big Data: Most Time-Consuming, Least Enjoyable Data Science Task, Survey Says57% of data scientists regard cleaning and organizing data as the least enjoyable part of their work and 19% say this about collecting data sets. These findings are yet another confirmation of a very widely known and lamented fact of the data scientist’s work experience. In 2009, data scientist Mike Driscoll popularized the term “data munging,” describing the “painful process of cleaning, parsing,
