Tapping Into Unstructured Data: Integrating Unstructured Data and Textual Analytics Into Business Intelligence

by William H. Inmon

'Tapping into Unstructured Data' provides the technologies and techniques to unlock unstructured data, and shows how to turn it into a business asset.

241 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2007

About the author

William H. Inmon is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, held the first conference (with Arnie Barnett), wrote the first column in a magazine and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing. Inmon created the accepted definition of what a data warehouse is - a subject-oriented, non-volatile, integrated, time-variant collection of data in support of management's decisions. Compared with the approach of the other pioneering architect of data warehousing, Ralph Kimball, Inmon's approach is often characterized as a top-down approach.

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Reviews

[Tom Kamei]

For those thinking about Big Data - 80% of the 7 exabytes of data stored last year was unstructured meaning that using traditional analytics tools will even with the cloud's elasticity can handle - does a nice job of out lining in very plain english some best practices, a little out of data, recommend some memcache articles