{"id":3183,"date":"2023-02-19T17:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2023-02-19T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:59:29","slug":"data-but-the-big-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/2023\/02\/19\/data-but-the-big-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"DATA!: But The Big Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big data differs from regular data because big data uses distributed architecture. Which just means that data is gathered from several different computers within a network. Big data is important to businesses because it improves operations, customer service, and marketing, allowing them to make faster and more informed business decisions. Businesses can analyze real-time and historical data to assess the changes in preferences and enable the business to be more responsive to changes. Big data, it is characterized by something called \u201c6Vs.\u201d The 6 V\u2019s include: volume, velocity, variety, veracity, value, and variability. Volume helps define big data because the volume is a large amount of data making it big data. Velocity refers to the high speed of the collection of data. When there is a large and continuous flow of data that helps us define the data as \u201cbig data.\u201d The variety of big data can be broken down into 3 categories: structured data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data. Structured data is organized data, and semi-structured data does not have a formal structure. Unstructured data is data that does fit into any typical structure. Veracity is the uncertainty with data. With big data,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3184 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/bigdata-300x289.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/bigdata-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis2101sec730spring2023\/files\/2023\/02\/bigdata.png 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> there is data coming in different types of data coming from multiple sources. Value is what gives data its purpose. Data is useless unless you have a goal in collecting it. Variability is the changing shape of the data you collect. The \u201c6 V\u2019s\u201d of data allows us to understand data and also apply these concepts to define if the data we collect is big data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big data differs from regular data because big data uses distributed architecture. Which just means that data is gathered from several different computers within a network. Big data is important to businesses because it improves operations, customer service, and marketing, allowing them to make faster and more informed business decisions. 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