# Data Ecosystem ## Metadata - Author: [[Gerrishon Sirere]] - Full Title: Data Ecosystem - Category: #Type/Highlight/Article - URL: https://medium.com/p/111b818c3d1b ## Highlights - Data can be categorized as structured semi-structured, or unstructured. - Structured data can be organized into rows and columns an example of structured data is spreadsheets. - Semi-structured data is a mix of data that has consistent characteristics and data that doesn’t conform to a rigid structure. For example, emails. An email has a mix of structured data, such as the name of the sender and recipient, but also has the contents of the email, which is unstructured data. - Unstructured data: Data that is complex, and mostly qualitative information that is impossible to reduce to rows and columns. For example, photos, videos, text files, PDFs, and social media content. --- Date: 2022-03-10 Author: Jimmy Briggs <[email protected]> Source: medium Link: https://medium.com/p/111b818c3d1b Tags: ["#Type/Highlight/Article"] Aliases: ["Data Ecosystem", "Data Ecosystem"] --- # Data Ecosystem ## Metadata - Author: [[Gerr!shon]] - Full Title: Data Ecosystem - Category: #Type/Highlight/Article - URL: https://medium.com/p/111b818c3d1b ## Highlights - Data can be categorized as structured semi-structured, or unstructured. - Structured data can be organized into rows and columns an example of structured data is spreadsheets. - Semi-structured data is a mix of data that has consistent characteristics and data that doesn’t conform to a rigid structure. For example, emails. An email has a mix of structured data, such as the name of the sender and recipient, but also has the contents of the email, which is unstructured data. - Unstructured data: Data that is complex, and mostly qualitative information that is impossible to reduce to rows and columns. For example, photos, videos, text files, PDFs, and social media content.