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Explainer video: When does data become big data?

What is Big Data? - Computerphile

Rebecca Tickle is a PhD student in the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham, explains what big data is.  She uses a handy “Five Vees of Big Data Mnemonic” — volume, velocity, variety, value, and veracity. She mentions that other people have come up with the “Seven Vees of Big Data Mnemonic” and even the “Ten Vees of Big Data Mnemonic.”

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