What do you qualify as "Big Data"? Does it have more to do with the amount of data or the type of data?

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CTO in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago

The vastness of data points at your disposition and how you use them for business decisions.

CEO in Services (non-Government)2 years ago

Big data refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.

CTO in Software2 years ago

It is your inventory of works. Irrespective of its nature, you should be smart enough to use it for future decision-making. The amount and type will help to make your prediction more precise.

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Chief Data Officer in Services (non-Government)2 years ago

Data that contains greater variety, arriving in increasing volumes and with more velocity (also known as the 3 Vs).

Chief Technology Officer in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

It is the latter - the data variety and the intended insights qualify to determine the need for big data.

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