An Overview of Big Data Opportunity and Challenges
Pooja Pant, Rajneesh Tanwar · Communications in computer and information science · 2016
This decade has seen massive explosion of information and data, voluminous data bring about many challenges – data storage, data analysis, noise accumulation, data privacy, security and heterogeneity of data. With the emergence of this voluminous data also known as Big data, an explosion of data have been seen in all fields related to science and engineering. In current scenario this term often applies to data sets with extreme size (Exabyte’s). In this article we present an overview of the need of big data, its applications and challenges.