From the course: Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics
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Address big data problems
From the course: Learning Data Science: Understanding the Basics
Address big data problems
- Big data and data science have been so intertwined that many organizations see them as one thing. Remember, data science uses the scientific method with your data. That doesn't mean that you have to have a lot of data to ask these questions. Big data provides a robust new source of data. This new source allows you to ask questions that couldn't be answered with a smaller data set. Often, more data points provide more power during statistical analysis. Big data sounds like the title of a 1960s horror movie. You picture some screaming woman in cat eye glasses being swallowed by an oozing mountain of data. In reality, big data isn't really a noun. In the original NASA paper, it wasn't described as a big data problem. You could read this one of two ways. It's a "big data" problem or a big "data problem". If you read the whole paper, it sounds like they put emphasis on the problem. It's not about big data, it's about the problem of data that's too big to store. You also see this effuse…
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