Big Data - Explained!
The term BIG DATA has been under the limelight since quite a while now. It's definitely the next BIG thing as the name suggests but is also linked with a lot of misconceptions and controversies. In this post, I would try to explain what Big Data is in the simplest way I can. BIG DATA Big Data refers to enormous amounts of data which is so huge that it can't be stored or processed by traditional computing or database techniques, which later may even reveal trends, associations or patterns relating to human behavior if processed and analysed using right tools and systems (Sagiroglu and Sinanc, 2013). CLASSIFICATION OF BIG DATA (Shahzan, 2019) STRUCTURED DATA - Data that has a proper structure associated with it. Eg.: Excel sheets, CSV files, etc SEMI STRUCTURED DATA - Data that doesn't have a proper structure but contains semantic tags. Eg.; Data present within emails, log files, etc UNSTRUCTURED DATA - Data with no structure at all. Eg. : Ima...