There is no such thing as unstructured data. There, I said it. Structure is inherent in the definition of data. No structure means no information means no data. Like “clearly misunderstood,” “unstructured data” is an oxymoron. Some have proposed “semi-structured data” to overcome this logical issue, but this alternative is no less discriminatory. Whatever part…

Google will learn just a tiny bit more about me (and you, the reader) from this post, enabling the search engine giant to (probabilistically) increase its bottom line through better targeted advertisements. You’re welcome, Google. A hugely transformative data revolution is upon us. Machine readable information is being generated and captured at an astounding and…