Database War Stories #6: O'Reilly Research. By tim
In building our Research data mart, which includes data on book sales trends, job postings, blog postings, and other data sources, Roger Magoulas has had to deal with a lot of very messy textual data, transforming it into something with enough structure to put it into a database. In this entry, he describes some of the problems, solutions, and the skills that are needed for dealing with unstructured data. [O'Reilly Radar]