The culprit isn't computational power or model sophistication — it's data variety. While enterprises rush to deploy large ...

Of the famous big data Vs, it’s the variety in data that holds the most potential for exploitation. While not everybody has the huge problems of volume and velocity that a Facebook or a high ...

What is uniquely interesting about big data is that, if efficiently conquered, it has the potential to change the way that nearly all sectors and businesses operate.

Big Data vs. Small Data Key Points Big data are massive data sets used to gather real-time information. Small data are ...

Big Data is often described in terms of three V’s: volume, velocity and variety. Let's dive into what exactly that means and how state and local governments can begin to tackle Big Data. The hard disk ...

In my last post, I discussed the challenges, patterns, and approaches to dealing with the most obvious of the “four V’s” of big data – volume – briefly touching on the subject of ...

While the origins of the term are elusive, and even debated, big data is one of those concepts that many know about, yet it defies a simple definition. At the heart of big data, as the term ...

Data is being generated about the activities of people and inanimate objects on a massive and increasing scale. We examine how much data is involved, how much might be useful, what tools and ...

As with many expressions nowadays, "big data" often is tossed around but rarely understood. How many safety leaders fully grasp what big data is or how it is relevant in the safety industry? Big data ...

Similarly, businesses today find value in bringing together diverse types of data in the search for competitive insights. In Big Data terms, we refer to this diversity as ‘variety.’ Doug Laney ...