Chapter 9
Big Data and Bigger Data, Little Data, Cloud, and Other Data
Keywords: Hadoop, Spark, Cloud, Big Data, Streaming Data, Messaging Services, Relational Data, Unstructured Data
Preamble
In the last chapter, we covered data science. A data scientist cannot work without data and data is the subject of this chapter. We explore data of all types, but in particular, we view big data, cloud data and the emerging importance of streaming, geospatial and event-based messaging data. These are the essentials of analytics today. And It’s All Analytics!
Please remember / review where data comes from – processes (see Chapter 3).
Introduction
As the saying goes, data is the new oil! That is true in many ways. Just as oil is a commodity, data is ...
