Storytelling with Data
Even though the term big is used in big data, it’s not just about the size of
the data. It’s also about all the data, big or small, within your company and
all the data outside your company that would be helpful to you. The data
can be in any format and can be collected with any degree of regularity.
So the best way to define big data is to think of it as all data,
no matter its size (volume), speed (velocity), or type (variety). In addition to those criteria,
there are three more factors you can use to describe data: veracity,
variability, and value. Together, they’re commonly known as the “six Vs” of
big data
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