Explain to me like I’m 5
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Big data is like regular data just a lot more of it.
So much more that you can’t store it all on one computer. Or you could but it would need to be huge and they don’t really make computers that big. But if you instead take 50 or 100 computers and network them together you can get the same amount of storage as you would in the super big computer.
So now you have access to new data sets that didn’t exist before because there simply wasn’t the space to store all that data in one place. Or they did exist but it took a lot of work to actually trawl through it because it was all so scattered.
So that’s where analytics comes in. Analytics applies to data big and small but the bigger the sample size usually means a more accurate analysis or prediction.
Analytics is just the processes and tools used to answer (or start to ask) a question based on what the data actually says rather than what you think it might be.
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