In data analysis, a data ecosystem includes the software, infrastructure, tools used, frameworks, and methods used to gather, prepare, analyze, mine, and visualize data.
Data can be categorized as structured semi-structured, or unstructured.
The type of data drives the kind of data repositories that the data can be collected and stored in, and also the tools that can be used to query or process the data. Data also comes in a wide-ranging variety of file formats being collected from a variety of data sources, ranging from relational and non-relational databases to APIs, web services, data streams, social platforms, and sensor devices.
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