Dealing with Unstructured Data

Indra Zaka Permana
4 min readSep 25, 2024

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There are two indicators that we could get while we’re taking position in the middle constellations of variables. At the moment, part looks unstructured. It could be constructed by two things. First is by failed intention, and second is, we’re at the bottom of our phase to understanding the whole. Some said, it’s in the quantum zone.

In the previous article, I’ve been sharing my thoughts about how our (deep) breath shapes our intention, and could become a tool for figuring out the intangibles such as social rhythm.

If we remember again, data is always the “jewel” from the past. It has already happened. If it has not happened yet, we will figure it as a sign or constellation. Or if it is in both, it could reveal an icon and scheme that is really attached to our daily activities.

The main intention of writing this article is to remember again how humans could expand, or push themselves in a lot of forms as their role at a certain moment.

Being Unstructured

There’s a moment in my working life when I have to pass through the process of finishing without knowing what is the final objective of the task. Just doing the “check list job”. Without knowing, because the work is divided by groups, or works in cells. The lesson for that type of work is that you have to set your intention not to be part of the whole. This is the moment to set ourselves as the core pipe, as an entity that’s being “trusted and used” by the system. How to set yourself at the best edges of performance. So with that, the intention of knowing the whole is more into the whole inside us.

In that kind of work, we mostly do not feel the rhythm, the big picture, and the structure of the work that passes through on each day. It’s unstructured, but it’s all passing our core pipe of our container to hold the moment.

Sometimes, working in an unstructured spectrum will drain our stamina. But it’s a good sign. So we could map our position in a constellation of systems that worked at the time. It’s like we’re at the center of intention.

Recovering Intention

As the system grows, the process of acknowledging the constellation will lead individuals to tie in bigger selves. It could reveal a bigger picture, or it could appear as a variable of the echo chamber. Sometimes it’s a good sign to know our position in the early phase of transforming self into a bigger self. It is also a phase of ourselves starting to figure the impact of our personal intentions and collective intentions.

Entering the World of Vibration

When I went to Central Java three weeks ago, I talked with a silat practitioner who mastered breathing techniques. I was told by him that breathing is a gateway to entering “the world of vibration”. The world where matter is equal with non-matter. Measuring and counting is not the primary step in verifying existence, or measuring and counting could become the sub ordinance of intention in vibration.

“You will focus on searching for synchronicity. It’s dangerous, because it leads to living doing things in addiction or doing an unconscious cycle of activity in an escalating pattern,” he said.

If we have an interest in knowing the meaning of unstructured data, it is mandatory to attach ourselves to the rhythm of the big picture. The interest leads us to know the gap that has to be connected. It also leads us to understand about the “waiting moment”, or the pause, or the enlarging the moment into deepened spectrum of consciousness.

Fluidity in Data

Knowing at the bottom of the big picture leads us to understand that data is not always a content, it also can become the container of context, especially the context that has relation with the variables who set as stakeholder, or gateway of cycles in systems.

The container itself can be measured, or mostly just detected by other variables in the system. It’s sometimes acknowledged by the third party, while the container itself is not in the intention of measuring and making it visible and tangible, and flows. Like fluid, sometimes we can differentiate elements by knowing the characteristics of what element has appeared or surrounding the element that we observed. And when the flows meet the equilibrium, mostly it becomes a cycle.

The cycle leads into fluidity of data movement into another unknown container. In that situation, data has already become variables of the structured systems that are attached to intention…

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Indra Zaka Permana
Indra Zaka Permana

Written by Indra Zaka Permana

Architecture in the making, Journalism in the passion. I developed skills in Generative & Systems Scribing, Visual Profilling, and Data Analyst.

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