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  • An introduction to Big Data
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An introduction to Big Data

02 September 2020

Orginal Content provided by BDO South Africa

The use of Big Data and Data Science encompasses a number of innovative, game changing, initiatives and possibilities. Gartner defines Big Data as a “high-volume, high-velocity and/or high-variety information assets that demand costeffective, innovative forms of information processing that enable enhanced insight, decision making, and process automation.” Big Data is the phenomenon wherein data has exponentially grown and keeps growing in numerous day to day activities. Data Science encompasses using this Big Data for analysation and inference.

The BDO FS Technology team give an insightful introduction to Big Data in this whitepaper.