What are structures of big data?

[shivajikobardan]

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structures of big data

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I am learning about 3 V's of big data. I am learning about variety at the moment. They say variety represents variety of formats, data sources and structures. I understand format might be txt, audio, video files etc. Sources might be different sources of data. But what is structures of data?

I am really confused at this.

 

[Baluncore]

I am really confused at this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure

 

[shivajikobardan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure

They are not the same thing. I know about data structure. They are structured, semi-structured and unstructured fyi...I got it just now.

 

[berkeman]

They are not the same thing. I know about data structure. They are structured, semi-structured and unstructured fyi...I got it just now.

Oh, I was about to post the same link that @Baluncore did before he beat me to it. The term "data structure" has a specific meaning in computer science (as explained in the Wikipedia article), so if your class is using terms very similar to it to mean other things, that's a bit confusing. Glad you figured out what they wanted, though.