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UNIT1

INTRODUCTION TO BIGDATA
DATA
• Data is the collection of raw facts and figures
• Examples of Data: • Student data on admission form-. •
Student’s examination data - obtained marks of different
subjects for all students
• • Census Report, Data of citizens- During census, data of
all citizens like number of persons living in a home,
literate or illiterate, number of children, cast, religion etc.
• • Survey Data –opinion of people about their product
like / unlike. They also collect data about their
competitor companies in a particular area.
INFORMATION
• Information: Processed data is called
information
• raw facts and figures are processed and
arranged in some proper order then they
become information
• Information has proper meanings
• nformation is useful in decision-making
INFORMATION
EXAMPLES
• student’s address labels- Stored data of students
can be used to print address labels of students
• Student’s examination, obtained marks in each
subject is processed to get total obtained marks
of a student.
• Census Report, Total Population- Census data is
used to get report/information about total
population of a country and literacy rate etc.
UNITS OF DATA
WHAT IS BIG DATA
• a collection of data sets that are large and complex,
• difficult to store and process using available database
management tools or traditional data processing
applications
• The definition of Big Data, given by Gartner is,
“Big data is high-volume, and high-velocity and/or high-
variety information assets that demand cost-effective,
innovative forms of information processing that
enable enhanced insight, decision making, and
process automation”.
Sources of Big data
• social media sites,
• sensor networks,
• digital images/videos,
• cell phones,
• purchase transaction records,
• web logs,
• medical records,
• archives,
• military surveillance,
• ecommerce,
• complex scientific research
Examples
• The New York Stock Exchange generates about one
terabyte of new trade data per day.
• Facebook stores, accesses, and analyzes 30+ Petabytes of
user generated data.
• Amazon handles 15 million customer click stream user data
per day to recommend products.
• Walmart handles more than 1 million customer
transactions every hour.
• 230+ millions of tweets are created every day.
• 294 billion emails are sent every day. Services analyses this
data to find the spams.

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