Data Source

A Data Source is a source of a data set.

• AKA: Data Feed.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Batch Data Source to being a Real-Time Data Source (such as a data stream).
• Example(s):
  • the New York Stock Exchange Data Feed, is a Data Stream.
  • the UCI ML Repository.
  • a Product Data Feed.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Computation Resource.
• See: Data Collection Task, Real-Time Computing, Web Feed, RSS Feed, Product Feed, E-Commerce, Internet Marketing.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/data_feed Retrieved:2014-2-10.
  • Data feed is a mechanism for users to receive updated data from data sources. It is commonly used by real-time applications in point-to-point settings as well as on the World Wide Web. The latter is also called web feed. News feed is a popular form of web feed. RSS feed makes dissemination of blogs easy. Product feeds play increasingly important role in e-commerce and internet marketing. Data feeds usually requires structured data. At the present time unstructured data, e.g. HTML pages, dominate the Web. As a result, data feeds have the potential to make a bigger impact on the Web in the future.

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