AI Glossary

Data Lake

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A data lake stores large volumes of raw or lightly processed data in flexible formats for later analytics and ML.

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A data lake stores large volumes of raw or lightly processed data in flexible formats for later analytics and ML.

Plain English explanation

A big landing zone for many data types before you decide how to structure them.

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