Data Engineering
Unstructured Data
Data without a fixed format, emails, documents, images, audio, video, social media posts, the majority of enterprise data.
Definition
Data that doesn't conform to a predefined schema or structure. Includes text documents, images, audio, video, and social media content. Comprises 80-90% of enterprise data.
Why it matters
The biggest untapped data asset in most organizations, AI (especially LLMs) finally makes unstructured data analyzable at scale.
Related terms in Data Engineering
Batch Processing
Processing a large group of data all at once on a schedule, rather than one piece at a time in real-time.
Chunking Strategies
Chopping up long documents into small, bite-sized pieces so an AI can search and read them easily.
Data Augmentation
Creating fake but realistic training examples (like flipping or rotating images) to give the AI more data to learn from.
Data Labeling
The human work of tagging data with correct answers so an AI can learn from it, like marking photos as "cat" or "dog."
From vocabulary to outcomes
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