DATA MANAGEMENT

Unit-II
TYPES OF DIGITAL DATA

Symbiosis International (Deemed University)

Session Objectives
By the end of this session, you will be able to:

1. Describe and differentiate different types of digital

data.
Unit Content Summary
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Structured Data
2.3 Unstructured Data
2.4 Semi-structured Data
2.5 Real Time Data
2.6 Right Time Data
Introduction
• A huge volume of data is being generated every day at
very fast rate.
• Data is broadly categorized into three types namely
structured, unstructured, and semi-structured.
• As per Gartner’s report 20% data is structured and
remaining is unstructured or semi-structured data.
• Most of the data generated now a day falls under
unstructured category.
Structured Data

• The structured data is usually stored in the tabular

format (in rows and columns) in excel, csv files,
relational database management system (RDBMS) etc.
Structured Data (… contd.)
• Example- Day to day operational data generated
everyday by transactional processing systems such as
railway reservation system, core banking solution, ERP,
CRM, point of sale system etc.
• The structured data can be easily stored, manipulated,
and processed by any RDBMS systems such as Oracle,
MySql.
• The warehouse data is also example of structured data.
Unstructured Data
• The data that doesn’t follow any pre-defined structured
in order to store and process it, falls under unstructured
category.
• A bigger percentage of the worlds data generated in
today’s time falls under this category.
Unstructured Data (…contd.)
• Example- The data in the form of text, images, video
etc.
• Every day we generate huge volume of unstructured
data by posting text messages, images/pictures, Videos
on social media sites such as Facebooks, Instagram,
twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc.
• The storage capacity required to store unstructured
data is huge because of images and videos.
Semi Structured Data
• This is type of data which is neither structured nor
unstructured.
• It means that data doesn’t follow fixed schema like
tables in relational database management system but it
has some structural elements like tags and elements.
• E-mails, XML, JSON are some good examples of semi-
structured data
Real Time Data
• The data which is used immediately after it is collected
is called real time data.
• Nowadays there are several applications where real
time data is used. For example, recommender systems,
navigation systems, self-driving cars, google maps
• Data loses its value as time passes. Therefore nowadays
it is increasingly becoming important to leverage the
data value immediately once it is generated.
Right Time Data
• Data become useless if not available at right time i.e.
when needed.
• Therefore, making data available or accessible to the
right people at right time is very much important.
Exercises
• Discuss characteristics of structured,
unstructured, and semi structured data.
• Explain the Real Time Data with the help of
example.
• Explain the Right Time Data in detail.
Thank You