Unstructured content: An untapped fuel source for AI and machine learning - SD Times

Where the smart money is International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2020 organizations that analyze both structured and unstructured data, that is all relevant data, and deliver actionable information will achieve an extra $430 billion in productivity gains over their competitors that do not perform such data analysis. And businesses that understand this are not waiting until 2020. An executive at a multinational insurance company based in Germany refers to unstructured data as their greatest risk. They understand the numbers involved, and are working to ensure they're not caught off-guard by writing insurance policies that expose them to liabilities they could have avoided.