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Big Data

The document discusses the rapid growth of data generation, particularly through the Internet and smartphones, leading to the emergence of Big Data characterized by its volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value. Traditional data processing tools are inadequate for handling the complexity and size of Big Data, which includes unstructured data from various sources. There is a focus on developing new methods and software to effectively process and analyze Big Data due to its potential high business value.

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Big Data

The document discusses the rapid growth of data generation, particularly through the Internet and smartphones, leading to the emergence of Big Data characterized by its volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value. Traditional data processing tools are inadequate for handling the complexity and size of Big Data, which includes unstructured data from various sources. There is a focus on developing new methods and software to effectively process and analyze Big Data due to its potential high business value.

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With technology making

an inroad into almost every


sphere of our lives, data
is being produced at a
colossal rate. Today, there
are over a billion Internet
users, and a majority of
the world’s web traffic is
coming from smartphones.
Figure 2.8 shows that at
the current pace, around
2.5 quintillion bytes of data
are created each day, and
the pace is increasing with
the continuous evolution of
the Internet of Things (IoT).
This results in the
generation of data sets
of enormous volume and
complexity called Big
Data. Such data cannot
be processed and analysed
using traditional data processing tools as the data is not only voluminous,
but also unstructured like our posts, instant messages
and chats, photographs that we share through various
sites, our tweets, blog articles, news items, opinion
polls and their comments, audio/video chats, etc.
Big data not only represents voluminous data, it also
involves various challenges like integration, storage,
analysis, searching, processing, transfer, querying and
visualisation of such data. Big data sometimes hold rich
information and knowledge which is of high business
value, and therefore there is a keen effort in developing
software and methods to process and analyse big data. Characteristics of Big Data
Big data exhibits following five characteristics shown in
Figure 2.9, that distinguish it from traditional data.
(A) Volume
The most prominent characteristic of big data is its
enormous size. If a particular data set is of such large
size that it is difficult to process it with traditional DBMS
tools, it can be termed as big data.
(B) Velocity
It represents the rate at which the data under
consideration is being generated and stored. Big data
has an exponentially higher rate of generation than
traditional data sets.
(C) Variety
It asserts that a data set has varied data, such as
structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
Some examples are text, images, videos, web pages and
so on.
(D) Veracity
Big data can be sometimes inconsistent, biased, noisy
or there can be abnormality in the data or issues
with the data collection methods. Veracity refers to
the trustworthiness of the data because processing
such incorrect data can give wrong results or mislead
the interpretations.
(E) Value
Big data is not only just a big pile of data, but also
possess to have hidden patterns and useful knowledge
which can be of high business value. But as there is cost
of investment of resources in processing big data, we
should make a preliminary enquiry to see the potential of the big data in terms of
value discovery or else our
efforts could be in vain.

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