Tapping into Unstructured Data: Integrating Unstructured Data and Textual Analytics into Business Intelligence
Author: William H Inmon
The Definitive Guide to Unstructured Data Management and Analysis--From the World’s #1 Information Management Expert
A wealth of invaluable information exists in unstructured textual form--but, until recently, organizations have found it difficult or impossible to access and utilize it. This is changing rapidly: new approaches finally make it possible to glean useful knowledge from virtually any collection of unstructured data. Now, William H. Inmon--the father of data warehousing--and Anthony Nesavich introduce the next data revolution: unstructured data management.
Inmon and Nesavich cover all you need to know to make unstructured data work for your organization. You’ll learn how to bring it into your existing “structured data” environment, leverage existing analytical infrastructure, and implement textual analytic processing technologies to solve new problems and uncover new opportunities.
Inmon and Nesavich introduce breakthrough techniques covered in no other book--including the powerful role of textual integration, new ways to integrate textual data into data warehouses, and new SQL techniques for reading and analyzing text. They also present five chapter-length, real-world case studies--demonstrating unstructured data at work in medical research, insurance, chemical manufacturing, contracting, and beyond.
This bookwill be indispensable to every business and technical professional trying to make sense of a large body of unstructured text: managers, database designers, data modelers, DBAs, researchers, and end users alike.
Coverage includes
- What unstructured data is, and how it differs from structured data
- First generation technology for handling unstructured data, from search engines to ECM—and its limitations
- Integrating text so it can be analyzed with a common, colloquial vocabulary: integration engines, ontologies, glossaries, and taxonomies
- Processing semistructured data: uncovering patterns, words, identifiers, and conflicts
- Novel processing opportunities that arise when text is freed from context
- Architecture and unstructured data: “Data Warehousing 2.0”
- Building unstructured relational databases and linking them to structured data
- Visualizations and Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), including Compudigm and Raptor solutions
- Capturing knowledge from spreadsheet data and email
- Implementing and managing metadata: data models, data quality, and more
Preface
1 Unstructured Textual Data in the Organization
2 The Environments of Structured Data and Unstructured Data
3 First Generation Textual Analytics
4 Integrating Unstructured Text into the Structured Environment
5 Semistructured Data
6 Architecture and Textual Analytics
7 The Unstructured Database
8 Analyzing a Combination of Unstructured Data and Structured Data
9 Analyzing Text Through Visualization
10 Spreadsheets and Email
11 Metadata in Unstructured Data
12 A Methodology for Textual Analytics
13 Merging Unstructured Databases into the Data Warehouse
14 Using SQL to Analyze Text
15 Case Study--Textual Analytics in Medical Research
16 Case Study--A Database for Harmful Chemicals
17 Case Study--Managing Contracts Through an Unstructured Database
18 Case Study--Creating a Corporate Taxonomy (Glossary)
19 Case Study--Insurance Claims
Glossary
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Software Teamwork: Taking Ownership for Success
Author: Jim Brosseau
“If your desire is to effect change or have more influence on a software team, you could either stumble around in the dark for a few years, experimenting with different techniques, or you could buy, read, and apply the techniques in this book. This choice, of course, is up to you.”–Matthew Heusser
“Jim Brosseau’s understanding of the true dynamics of the IT workplace shows through in Software Teamwork. For those on the IT solution delivery front lines, and for those who manage them, his insights and wisdom will lead to not only better projects, but a better work life as well.”–Bruce A. Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, Accendor Research, Inc.
Optimizing the Human Side of Software Development:
Real Solutions Based on Real Data and Experience
Software Teamwork is a compelling, innovative, intensely practical guide to improving the human dynamics that are crucial to building great software.
Drawing on years of work with a wide range of teams, Jim Brosseau shows how to drive powerful improvements through small, focused changes that deliver results. These changes are designed to work for the whole team and respect existing organizational culture. Better yet, Brosseau identifies solutions you can start implementing right now, as an individual, without waiting forexecutive buy-in.
Whatever your methodology, technology, or organization, Software Teamwork demonstrates how to apply solutions to realistic development challenges involving complex sets of stakeholders. Along the way, Brosseau shares important new insights into the attitudes, motives, and personal relationships that project management software just can’t track.
Software Teamwork is a revelation–and an invaluable working resource for every project team member, leader, and stakeholder.
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxiii
Part I: The Problem Space
Chapter 1: Why Are We So Challenged? 3
Chapter 2: Do the Right Thing 23
Part II: Individuals
Chapter 3: The Right Stuff 39
Chapter 4: A Quality Focus 53
Chapter 5: Facing Challenges 65
Chapter 6: Proactive Effectiveness 81
Chapter 7: Sustainability 95
Part III: Groups
Chapter 8: Communication 109
Chapter 9: Motives and Expectations 125
Chapter 10: Playing Well Together 143
Part IV: Teams
Chapter 11: Alignment 161
Chapter 12: Organization 177
Chapter 13: Coordination 199
Chapter 14: Guidance 217
Part V: Stakeholders
Chapter 15: Customers 235
Chapter 16: Setting Goals 243
Chapter 17: Specification 259
Chapter 18: Prioritization 273
Chapter 19: Change 283
Chapter 20: Progress 295
Part VI: Putting It All Together
Chapter 21: Pick Your Battles 311
Chapter 22: Flexibility and Rigor 323
Chapter 23: Progress Revisited 335
Chapter 24: Change Revisited 345
Chapter 25: Constant Vigilance 361
Part VII: Appendix
Appendix: Core Tools 375
Index 387
Table of Contents:
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxiii
Part I: The Problem Space
Chapter 1: Why Are We So Challenged? 3
Chapter 2: Do the Right Thing 23
Part II: Individuals
Chapter 3: The Right Stuff 39
Chapter 4: A Quality Focus 53
Chapter 5: Facing Challenges 65
Chapter 6: Proactive Effectiveness 81
Chapter 7: Sustainability 95
Part III: Groups
Chapter 8: Communication 109
Chapter 9: Motives and Expectations 125
Chapter 10: Playing Well Together 143
Part IV: Teams
Chapter 11: Alignment 161
Chapter 12: Organization 177
Chapter 13: Coordination 199
Chapter 14: Guidance 217
Part V: Stakeholders
Chapter 15: Customers 235
Chapter 16: Setting Goals 243
Chapter 17: Specification 259
Chapter 18: Prioritization 273
Chapter 19: Change 283
Chapter 20: Progress 295
Part VI: Putting It All Together
Chapter 21: Pick Your Battles 311
Chapter 22: Flexibility and Rigor 323
Chapter 23: Progress Revisited 335
Chapter 24: Change Revisited 345
Chapter 25: Constant Vigilance 361
Part VII: Appendix
Appendix: Core Tools 375
Index 387
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