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Table of Contents

Chapter 1.1: An Introduction to Data Architecture

Subdividing Data

Repetitive/Nonrepetitive Unstructured Data

The Great Divide of Data

Textual/Nontextual Data

The Different Forms of Data

Chapter 1.2: The Data Infrastructure

Two Types of Repetitive Data

Repetitive Structured Data

Repetitive Big Data

The Two Infrastructures

What's Being Optimized?

Comparing the Two Infrastructures

Chapter 1.3: The “Great Divide”

Classifying Corporate Data

The “Great Divide”

Repetitive Unstructured Data

Nonrepetitive Unstructured Data

Different Worlds

Chapter 1.4: Demographics of Corporate Data

Chapter 1.5: Corporate Data Analysis

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