Structured data refers to any organized data that conforms to a certain format. Structured data can be text files, web files, or any other data displayed in titled columns and rows; it can then be ordered and processed by data-mining tools. This chapter looks at real-life examples of structured data found in day-to-day business as far as the enterprise level and how modeling can be applied to this data. Users will get their hands dirty using the Python language. In this chapter, we are going to discuss the following topics:
- Deeper insights into structured data
- Using Python to model structured data
- Working with IPython