Data in GCP

Question 1

What is a data point?

Answer 1

A piece of information (e.g. a customer purchase or return)

Question 2

What is a dataset?

Answer 2

Aggregated data points of one category (e.g. customer transactions)

Question 3

Define structured data

Answer 3

Highly organized, quantitative data (e.g. names or credit card numbers).
Easily stored and managed in databases.

Question 4

Define Unstructured data.

Answer 4

Data that has no organization and tends to be qualitative (e.g. word processing
documents or images). Can be stored as objects, which consist of the data in its native format along with metadata such as unique identifiers.