Text Analytics, AQL
This book introduces the concept of the three V’s: volume, variety, and velocity. Variety is meant to represent data that is in one of three forms:
•Structured data: Like data found to exist in a relational database, generally; a rigid, homogenous, spreadsheet-like, row and column format to data.
•Semi-structured data: Like data from software server log files, machine data, HTML pages, data from many types of real-time sensors (heart monitors, weather stations), and related.
•Unstructured data: Data from blogs, social media, ...