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Big Data Management
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Big Data Management

by Peter Ghavami
November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
174 pages
5h 19m
English
De Gruyter
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Part 1: Big Data Overview

Chapter 1 Introduction to Big Data

Data is the new gold. And analytics is the machinery that mines, molds, and mints it. Big data analytics is a set of computer-enabled analytics methods, processes, and discipline of extracting and transforming raw data into meaningful insight, new discovery, and knowledge that helps make more effective decision making. Another definition describes big data analytics as the discipline of extracting and analyzing data to deliver new insight about the past performance, current operations, and prediction of future events.

Before there was big data analytics, the study of large data sets was called data mining. But big data analytics has come a long way in a decade and is now gaining ...

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