Benoit Cayla

Benoît Cayla is a computer engineer with over 25 years of data management experience and an expert in data management and AI. Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of working with major players like IBM, Informatica, and Tableau, contributing to large-scale projects in manufacturing, insurance, and finance.

books by Benoit Cayla

Data Preparation Handbook

  • MEAP began December 2024
  • Last updated May 2025
  • Publication in July 2025 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633435742
  • 300 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white

Data Preparation Handbook teaches you to tackle the challenges you’ll face as you work with data. You’ll master popular data wrangling tools like Python and Alteryx. Complex data prep concepts are broken down into clear, manageable steps and fully illustrated with engaging data sets—including data on the Titanic disaster, rating video games, sentiment analysis of Los Angeles restaurant recommendations, and more. The book is packed with vital advice for complex tasks, including merging multiple data sets, alerting systems for data quality, and scaling data preparation into large cloud-based pipelines. Learn universal techniques for data enrichment and transformation, and specialized approaches optimized for machine learning, analytics, and creating AI.