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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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What Separates Hybrid Cloud and ‘True’ Hybrid Cloud?

Cloudera

To attain that level of data quality, a majority of business and IT leaders have opted to take a hybrid approach to data management, moving data between cloud, on-premises -or a combination of the two – to where they can best use it for analytics or feeding AI models. Data comes in many forms. Let’s dive deeper.

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Announcing New Innovations for Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and Data Lakehouse in the Data Cloud 

Snowflake

And, since historically tools and commercial platforms were often designed to align with one specific architecture pattern, organizations struggled to adapt to changing business needs – which of course has implications on data architecture. The schema of semi-structured data tends to evolve over time.

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Chose Both: Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse

Cloudera

First, organizations have a tough time getting their arms around their data. More data is generated in ever wider varieties and in ever more locations. Organizations don’t know what they have anymore and so can’t fully capitalize on it — the majority of data generated goes unused in decision making. Better together.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

Cloudera

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

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[O’Reilly Book] Chapter 1: Why Data Quality Deserves Attention Now

Monte Carlo

We’ll take a closer look at variables that can impact your data next. Migration to the cloud Twenty years ago, your data warehouse (a place to transform and store structured data) probably would have lived in an office basement, not on AWS or Azure. What is a decentralized data architecture?

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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

AltexSoft

Also, data lakes support ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes, in which transformation can happen after the data is loaded in a centralized store. A data lakehouse may be an option if you want the best of both worlds. Data sources can be broadly classified into three categories. Structured data sources.