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Big Data And The Data

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Introduction The term big data came into the picture to refer the big volumes of information’s both the companies and governments are storing. The data may be where we live, where we go, what we buy and what we say etc. all will be recorded and stored forever. More than 90% of data is generated in the past 2 years only and this volume is increasing day by day and doubling for every two years. In this world, the organizations are using the data generated by us and no one knows what they are doing with the collected data. Big data is defined as a lot of structured and unstructured data from different sources, such as E-commerce websites, online transactions, social networks, medical records, internet search indexes, banking and financial services, scientific searches, weblogs, and document searches and so on. Big data also can be described by four V’s: Volume, Velocity, Variety and finally Value. Volume: The term big data itself tells it is related to size. Big data requires processing of high volumes of unstructured data such as data from twitter, network traffic etc. The volume of data varies from one organization to other. Velocity: The term velocity refers to how fast the data is generated and processed to meet the demands and the challenges in the path of growth and development. Reacting quickly enough to deal with data velocity is a challenge for most organizations. Variety: Data today comes in various formats, types, structured, unstructured. For example, the data may

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