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Different structures of data and data location

Different structures of data and data location

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Different structures of data and data location

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- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson where we're going to talk about data. In this case, we're going to talk specifically about structured, unstructured and semi-structured data, as well as data location. We'll start by talking about structured data, and then we'll move into unstructured data, followed by semi-structured, and then, of course, data location Starting with structured data, this is data that is formatted very consistently. This is often used in databases, such as SQL databases, that specifically require that all fields are populated. Now, in some cases, you might find that some of those fields are populated with an empty string, which is sort of a way of getting around some of the hard structure. But the key takeaway is that every single field in the database for structured data is populated with some kind of a value. So you can sometimes see this data type in formats such as XML, JSON, and YAML, but it's important to understand that these data types don't require the…

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