Unstructured Data - There Is Always Structure

There Is Always Structure

The term is imprecise for several reasons;

  1. structure, while not formally defined, can still be implied and
  2. data with some form of structure may still be characterized as unstructured if its structure is not helpful for the processing task at hand, and
  3. unstructured information might have some structure (semi-structured) or even be highly structured but in ways that are unanticipated or unannounced.

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