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Unstructured Data: Examples, Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices

AltexSoft

In today’s data-driven world, organizations amass vast amounts of information that can unlock significant insights and inform decision-making. A staggering 80 percent of this digital treasure trove is unstructured data, which lacks a pre-defined format or organization. What is unstructured data?

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Data Warehouse vs Data Lake vs Data Lakehouse: Definitions, Similarities, and Differences

Monte Carlo

With pre-built functionalities and robust SQL support, data warehouses are tailor-made to enable swift, actionable querying for data analytics teams working primarily with structured data. This is particularly useful to data scientists and engineers as it provides more control over their calculations. Or maybe both.)

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Machine Learning Made Easy: Q&A with Snowflake Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Strategy Ahmad Khan

Snowflake

Why AI has everyone’s attention, what it means for different data roles, and how Alteryx and Snowflake are bringing AI to data use cases There’s a llama on the loose! With all the hoopla around AI, there’s a lot to get up to speed on—especially the implications this technology has for data analytics. Some takeaways?

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Fundamentals of Apache Spark

Knowledge Hut

Following is the authentic one-liner definition. One would find multiple definitions when you search the term Apache Spark. One would find the keywords ‘Fast’ and/or ‘In-memory’ in all the definitions. Cluster Computing: Efficient processing of data on Set of computers (Refer commodity hardware here) or distributed systems.

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Data Pipeline- Definition, Architecture, Examples, and Use Cases

ProjectPro

In broader terms, two types of data -- structured and unstructured data -- flow through a data pipeline. The structured data comprises data that can be saved and retrieved in a fixed format, like email addresses, locations, or phone numbers. What is a Big Data Pipeline?

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The Evolution of Table Formats

Monte Carlo

Depending on the quantity of data flowing through an organization’s pipeline — or the format the data typically takes — the right modern table format can help to make workflows more efficient, increase access, extend functionality, and even offer new opportunities to activate your unstructured data.

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Experts Share the 5 Pillars Transforming Data & AI in 2024

Monte Carlo

Gen AI can whip up serviceable code in moments — making it much faster to build and test data pipelines. Today’s LLMs can already process enormous amounts of unstructured data, automating much of the monotonous work of data science. But what does that mean for the roles of data engineers and data scientists going forward?