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Practical Big Data Analytics
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Practical Big Data Analytics

by Nataraj Dasgupta
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
412 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Unstructured

Unstructured data consists of any dataset that does not have a predefined organizational schema as in the table in the prior section. Spoken words, music, videos, and even books, including this one, would be considered unstructured. This by no means implies that the content doesn’t have organization. Indeed, a book has a table of contents, chapters, subchapters, and an index--in that sense, it follows a definite organization.

However, it would be futile to represent every word and sentence as being part of a strict set of rules. A sentence can consist of words, numbers, punctuation marks, and so on and does not have a predefined data type as spreadsheets do. To be structured, the book would need to have an exact set of characteristics ...

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ISBN: 9781783554393