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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

In our modern digital world, proper use of data can play a huge role in a business’s success. Datasets are exploding at an ever-accelerating rate, so collecting and analyzing data to maximum effect is crucial. Understanding data structure is a key to unlocking its value. Structured vs unstructured data.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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In-depth with CDO Christopher Bannocks

Peter James Thomas

Because I have an overseas postcode the guy at the checkout put dummy data into all the fields to get through the process quickly and not impact my customer experience, I desperately wanted to stop him but also wanted to catch my plane. This is where the process efficiency impacts good data collection.

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How Jabil is building better, faster enterprise reporting

IBM Big Data Hub

Jabil is a longtime partner and IBM Business Analytics (BA) portfolio user, but before they made the switch to BA almost 15 years ago, they were using excel and spending most of their financial planning time trying to determine which numbers were most true for planning purposes. We can’t even see where the bar used to be.”.