Three V’s of Big Data with Example:

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In this blog-post, we would see the Three V’s of Big Data with Example:

1. Volume:

TB’s and PB’s and ZB’s of data that gets created:

From the webinar “How to Walk The Path from BI to Data Science: An interview with Michael Driscoll, data scientist and CEO of Metamarkets” – A global surge in Data

2. Velocity:

The speed at which information flows.

Example: 50 Million tweets per day!

twitter 50 million tweets per day

(This is back in Nov. of 2010 – the number must have increased!)

UPDATE 23 Nov 2012: on, wikipedia it says – 340 million tweets per day!

twitter 2012 340 million tweets per day

3. Variety:

All types of data is now being captured which may be in structured format or not.

Example: Text from PDF’s, Emails, Social network updates, voice calls, web traffic logs, sensor data, click streams, etc

data variety big data

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And this may be followed by other V’s like V for Value.

Conclusion:

In this blog-post, we saw Three V’s of Big Data with Example.

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