
Analyze how data volume drives storage and processing challenges in big data, with exabytes generated daily, impacting performance thresholds and enterprise decision making.
Explore the variety dimension of big data by examining structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, their sources, metadata, and the challenges of storing, integrating, and analyzing diverse data.
Explore veracity, the fifth dimension of big data, and its trustworthiness, authenticity, accountability, correctness, and time-relative accuracy. Assess how data validity depends on use, from long-term records to real-time analysis.
Explore the volatility dimension of big data by examining how data validity and storage duration change over time, and how real-time data blends with historical data for analysis.
Explore variability in big data, where data meaning shifts over time, affecting consistency and sentiment analysis, and learn to interpret context to separate signal from noise.
This course is designed to be an in-depth overview of the field of Big Data. It teaches the students various Characteristics of Big Data as well as discusses a few types of Data that exist. After completing this course, you will have the knowledge that can be applied later on in your journey into this field when you're selecting an Algorithm, a Tool, a Framework, or even while making a Blueprint of how to deal with the current problem at hand.
This introductory course breaks down the various characteristics that make it tricky to deal with Data, as explained below:
It is huge in size, requiring significant storage availability.
It is transferring at high speeds, requiring low-latency systems.
It is of various formats, requiring complex logic to work with all of them.
It can change frequently, requiring approaches to use the latest version.
It can contain noise that makes it difficult to decide whether to keep it or discard it.
We hope that with this course, you will build a strong foundation to evaluate how different characteristics impact the decisions you make when designing applications for data management and storage. We wish you all the best with your journey in the field of data science, data engineering, and machine learning.