unstructured and structured

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For the most part, structured data refers to information with a high degree of organization, such that inclusion in a relational database is seamless and readily searchable by simple, straightforward search engine algorithms or other search operations; whereas unstructured data is essentially the opposite. The lack of structure makes compilation a time and energy-consuming task. It would be beneficial to a company across all business strata to find a mechanism of data analysis to reduce the costs unstructured data adds to the organization.

Unstructured usually refers to information that doesn’t reside in a traditional row column database. As we might expect , it’s the opposite of structured data. The data stored in fields in a database. Unstructured data files often include text and multimedia content. Example include e-mail messages , word processing document , video , photos , audio files , presentations , web pages an may other kinds of business document. Note that these sorts of file may have an internal structure they are still considered unstructured because the data they cont...

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