Data Analytics - Overview



The amount of data in the past decade has been exploding. Private companies and research institutions captureterabytes of data about their users interactions, business, social media and also sensors from devices such as mobile phones, automobiles.

The price of data storage in systematically being reduced, the challenge of this era is making sense of this data. This is where big data analytics comes in, the task at hand consists of collecting data from different sources, munge it in a way it is made available to be consumed by analysts and finally deliver data products useful to the organization business.

The process of converting large amounts of unstructured raw data, that often is retrieved from different sources to a data product useful for organizations is the core of this work.

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