Chapter 8, Problem 1OC

Program Plan Intro

Big data:

• Big data is enormously large sets that may be analyzed computationally to expose trends, association and patterns particularly relating to human interactions and behavior.
• Big data challenges include data storage, search, transfer, data analysis, querying, sharing, information privacy, data source, querying, visualization and updating.
• Due to the technology evolution happened in the last 50 years, big data came into fruition.
• There was a transformation in the data landscape due to the revolutionary technological advances in software, hardware, storage, networking, and computing models which made new opportunities for data collection.

Explanation of Solution

Reasons for displaying big data in a graphic or visual format:

The main reasons why a business would want to display big data in a graphic or visual format are as follows.

• Big data in the form of visual format is easier to understand.
• Statistical data is not interesting to the readers in the form of text.
• In the form of text format, it is very hard to understand the results of any survey.
• Visual format makes it more interesting.
• It is easy to understand for multi lingual audience.
• When presented visually, the comparison research becomes far more dramatic.