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Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
Book Image

Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By: James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya

Overview of this book

Modeling and managing data is a central focus of all big data projects. In fact, a database is considered to be effective only if you have a logical and sophisticated data model. This book will help you develop practical skills in modeling your own big data projects and improve the performance of analytical queries for your specific business requirements. To start with, you’ll get a quick introduction to big data and understand the different data modeling and data management platforms for big data. Then you’ll work with structured and semi-structured data with the help of real-life examples. Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you’ll use the SQL Developer Data Modeler to create your own data models containing different file types such as CSV, XML, and JSON. You’ll also learn to create graph data models and explore data modeling with streaming data using real-world datasets. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and develop efficient data models for varying data sizes easily and efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Getting started with unstructured data

Unstructured data analysis has become a buzz phrase recently. A lot of researchers, data analysts, data modelers, and data scientists are struggling to find novel methods to enhance precision in unstructured data analysis. There are different sources of unstructured data. The most common sources include the following:

  • Email correspondence, and the reply, response, forward threads
  • Social media posts and activities
  • Video, sound, or image files
  • Web-browsing behavior

According to IBM, 90% of the world's data was produced in the past 2 years, which is unstructured or semi-structured. Due to its very nature, unstructured data is tremendously difficult to analyze. In the past, analysts were not able to do much about it due to the lack of technology. But with the upsurge of ICT technology, big data analysis, data mining, and machine learning...