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Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

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Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

- [Instructor] I have a friend who worked as an archivist for a major fashion designer in New York City. Their job was to go through the disorganized racks and piles of clothes from several decades of runway shows, match them with the videos of the shows and then label and document and organize everything. It was a monumental task that took over a year but now the design house has a documented history of their creative work and in addition they can actually find what they're looking for. In fashion, as in life, a little bit of structure can go a long way. When it comes to data and structure, there are three major rubrics or categories, there is structured data, semi-structured data, and unstructured and I'll say a couple words about each of these. Structured data is the kind that you generally think of when you think of data. It's rows and columns organized and labeled. The variables are predefined, the last name…

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