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The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop

You're reading from   The Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Workshop Build your own highly scalable and robust data storage systems that can support a variety of cutting-edge AI applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209848
Length 732 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bas Geerdink Bas Geerdink
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Chinmay Arankalle Chinmay Arankalle
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Kunal Gera Kunal Gera
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Kevin Liao Kevin Liao
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Gareth Dwyer Gareth Dwyer
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Anand N.S. Anand N.S.
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Preface
1. Data Storage Fundamentals 2. Artificial Intelligence Storage Requirements FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Preparation 4. The Ethics of AI Data Storage 5. Data Stores: SQL and NoSQL Databases 6. Big Data File Formats 7. Introduction to Analytics Engine (Spark) for Big Data 8. Data System Design Examples 9. Workflow Management for AI 10. Introduction to Data Storage on Cloud Services (AWS) 11. Building an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm 12. Productionizing Your AI Applications Appendix

Data in Document Format

For relational databases, data is usually in a tabular form. The file format for tabular data is usually CSV or TSV. However, data in modern web applications is rarely in a tabular form. For example, when we send a tweet on Twitter, we are effectively making a post request to the tweeter's server with the data being a document format. The data in our post request looks as follows:

Figure 10.39: Data in document format

If you are familiar with web programming, you'll notice that this data is in a JSON format. Data in JSON format naturally manifests the structure of the object in object-oriented programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, and Java. Nowadays, the most common data format that web servers are using between their communications is JSON. For web developers, data in JSON format is preferred to work with than data in tabular format, which means NoSQL databases are also preferable over relational databases...

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