3.5.1: understand the characteristics of structured and unstructured data
Keyword | Definition |
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Structured data | data that has been sorted or organised into groups or linked to related data (e.g. a list of people's phone numbers in alphabetical order by name) |
Unstructured data | data that has not been sorted, grouped or linked (e.g. one folder containing hundreds of different types of files with names like "Document 1" and "thing") |