Attitudes | Audiobooks |
Behavioral observations | Blogs |
Books | Call center recordings |
Chats | Class notes |
Conference calls | Contracts & agreements |
Customer perceptions | DNA sequences |
Documents | Drive recorder video |
Emails | Feedback |
Forum posts | Geological samples |
Historical artifacts | Historical documents |
Illustrations | Instant messages |
Interviews | Laws |
Magazines | Medical images |
Messages | Microscopic images |
Movie scripts | Music |
Myths | Narratives |
Newspaper articles | Opinions |
Paintings & drawings | Patent documents |
Photos | Physician's notes |
Podcasts | Policies |
Press releases | Processes |
Product descriptions | Research papers |
Reviews | Satellite imagery |
Security camera footage | Social media posts |
Speeches | Stories |
Text | Unstructured logs |
Unstructured medical records | Unstructured weather data |
Values | Videos |
Vlogs | Voice recordings |
Voicemail | White papers |
Writing
Textual analysis of written works such as books and blogs.Social Media
Scanning streams of social media to detect real time information such as rumors about a stock.Natural Language
Systems that accept voice commands or understand what people are saying for purposes such as analytics.Photographs & Video
Analysis of video to understand events such as a video camera that monitors water levels flowing into a dam reservoir.Communications
Scanning communications such as emails to detect spam.Science
Looking for patterns in interstellar radio messages in order to discover intelligent life.Health
Analysis of x-ray images for signs of disease.Search
A search engine that spiders unstructured web pages in order to understand their content.Notes
It is incorrect to say that all weather data, medical records or sensor data is unstructured. These types of data include both structured data such as database records and unstructured data such as photo imagery.It is common for a technology to use unstructured data to produce structured data. For example, an artificial intelligence that monitors social media conversations to come up with a measurement of brand perceptions at a point in time.| Overview: Unstructured Data | ||
Type | ||
Definition | Data that isn't structured for machines to understand. | |
Value | Most source data is unstructured. | |
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