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Emerging Technology: Dark Analytics for Understanding Unstructured Data Tops List

By Dick Weisinger

Extracting and analyzing unstructured data to derive actionable information is ranked by Deloitte as the most important on-going emerging technology, something that they are calling “Dark Analytics“. The Deloitte report found that “in a business climate where data is competitive currency,

Unstructured Data: A Goldmine of Information Waiting to be Mined

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data refers to documents and files made up of freeform information. Information from unstructured data is difficult to retrieve because it is typically dense in text and has no pre-defined data model like a database schema, XML or JSON

Unstructured Data: Average Large-Medium Sized Companies Manage 20 Terabytes of Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

Unstructured data is free-form information.  There is no data model or schema that defines how it is to be organized or formatted.  Unstructured data is often text-heavy.  Good examples of unstructured data include office documents, PDF files and emails. A recent

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

Data Storage: Bit Rot Threatens to Leave Behind a Digital Dark Age

By Dick Weisinger

Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet” and now Google Vice President, is warning that we’re at risk of losing massive amounts data to future generations.  Our current culture might well become a “digital dark age” mystery to historians. Cerf