What Is Big Data? by Jenna Dutcher.
From the post:
“Big data.” It seems like the phrase is everywhere. The term was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013 and appeared in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary in 2014. Now, Gartner’s just-released 2014 Hype Cycle shows “big data” passing the “peak of inflated expectations” and moving on its way down into the “trough of disillusionment.” Big data is all the rage. But what does it actually mean?
A commonly repeated definition cites the three Vs: volume, velocity, and variety. But others argue that it’s not the size of data that counts, but the tools being used or the insights that can be drawn from a dataset.
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Jenna collected forty (40) different responses to the question: “What is Big Data?”
If you don’t see one you agree with at Jenna’s post, feel free to craft your own as a comment to this post.
If a large number of people mean almost but not quite the same thing by “big data,” does that give you a clue as to a persistent problem in IT? And in relationships between IT and other departments?
I first saw this in a tweet by Lutz Maicher.