With all the news about “Big Data”, I had a question:

Where does Big Data come from?

So I researched and here are the Big Data “Sources” that I found:

1. Enterprise data (emails, word documents, pdf’s, etc)

2. Transactions

3. Social Media

4. Sensor Data

5. Public Data (energy, world resource, labor statistics etc)

Am I missing anything? Please feel free to point those out!

Update [11 July] : Claytonbingham adds “Academic Data” to the list, which I think sometimes can also be referred to as “scientific data” (Thanks Claytonbingham! please refer to comments section for his thoughts)

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