What Is Big Data?
Explore what big data is and why traditional processing techniques fall short for such vast and fast-growing datasets. Understand the four main characteristics of big data—volume, variety, velocity, and veracity—and see how industries like transportation, healthcare, and finance leverage big data to gain insights and improve services.
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Big data
Big data is data with a huge size. It is not possible to analyze data and produce models out of it by using traditional data processing and analysis techniques. People using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media sites generate data every minute. The following image shows what is happening in a minute on the internet:
The above diagram shows us how much data is being generated in one minute on the internet. We can see that in one minute:
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1.3 million people have logged into Facebook.
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Users have sent 19 million text messages ...