Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Information, without order, is chaotic. Attempting to work ...

When a conversation turns to analytics or big data, the terms structured, semi-structured and unstructured might get bandied about. These are classifications of data that are now important to ...

Business information is mostly generated by systems or people. Data from systems is most likely to be structured. In its traditional format, this is most typified by data in relational databases that ...

The untapped potential intelligence within unstructured content is driving new practices, new technologies and new roles. My team of data and analytics researchers and consultants falls into two main ...

Structured data is a small and declining percentage of business information. But it is critically important for almost all organisations. Structured data volumes are growing more slowly than stores of ...

Data scientists today face a perfect storm: an explosion of inconsistent, unstructured, multimodal data scattered across silos – and mounting pressure to turn it into accessible, AI-ready insights.

A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has shown that real-world data contained in unstructured narratives has big predictive value when it comes to clinical ...