Actually, the term Big Data seems to imply that other data is somehow small (it isn’t) or that the key issue to deal with it is the massive size. However, the characteristics of Big Data that require ...

Large amounts of data ("big data") offer enormous potential for improving the accuracy of genome-wide predictions in plant ...

There is also a third, in-between category of semi-structured data, which has some of the characteristics of each. Whether structured, unstructured, or semi-structured, big data is collected in ...

Facebook users send on average 31.25 million messages and view 2.77 million videos every minute. We are seeing a massive growth in video and photo data, where every minute up to 300 hours of video ...