DEMYSTIFYING BIG DATA AND RECOGNISING ITS POTENTIAL IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES

Prateek Chitpur

Abstract: Twenty-first century has seen many advancements in the field of Technology and Engineering. One of the main driving forces of that has been the invention of Internet and its massive growth in the couple of decades. Now with this advancement and growth there also has been massive increase in the amount of data being produced. This data is being produced every minute and its amount has increased at such a large scale that it requires to be managed for its efficient utilization. According to IBM, approximately 2.5 exabytes of data was generated per day in 2012. Now this asks for some efficient method to deal with this mammoth amount of data. Big Data Analytics provides methods and tools to deal with that. Content of this paper illustrates about Big Data Analytics and how it can be applied to various fields[1].

Keywords: Big Data, Big Data Analytics.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0612006