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What is Unstructured data? Definition and explanations

Unstructured data does not fit a predefined field model: emails, documents, contracts, images, audio, video, internal notes. It makes up most of an organisation's information estate yet stays hard to query. This is precisely what embeddings and semantic search set out to make usable.

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Unstructured data — documents, images, audio — fits no predefined field model.

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