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Unstructured + Structured Data: The Challenge of Seeing the Two in Context

By Formtek

Analysts estimate that 80 percent of all new data created is unstructured data.  It’s this crushing amount of data that is driving much of the interest behind Big Data tools like Hadoop.  Extracting information from unstructured data is a big part of the

Digital Transformation: One Third of Market Leaders to be Toppled by Digital Disruptors in Three Years

By Dick Weisinger

In just three years, one third of of top twenty market share leaders will have been disrupted by market competitors that use digital technologies to one-up existing leaders, says IDC. Meredith Whalen, Senior Vice President at IDC, said that “digital technology

Unstructured Data: Using Analytics to Make Sense of Dark Data’s Secrets

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is electronic information that isn’t rigidly divided into small bits of data and stored in data structures like the tables of a database or the elements of an XML document.  Because of that, unstructured data is difficult to

Big Data and Unstructured Data: Farewell to Data Trapped By Words?

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is information that isn’t stored according to a pre-defined data model.  Unstructured data is text-heavy and the information contained in it has proven to be challenging for computer software to analyze, unlock and to then be able to

Big Data: Unlocking Meaning from Unstructured/Dark Data

By Dick Weisinger

Interest in both Big Data and analytics has dramatically increased over the last couple of years.  Some indication of their popularity can be seen using Google Trends, where we see large increases in the number of searches that were made