Big Data Concept

What is Big Data? Big Data is a collection of large amount of Data that is available with all the organisation. The amount of these data are so huge that managing them has become a challenge. The worst thing is these data are increasing exponentially. For example : i) 200 of London's Traffic Cams collect 8 TB of data per day. ii)1 day of Instant Messaging in 2002 consume 750 GB of Data. iii)Annual Email Traffic excluding spams consume 300PB+ of Data. iv)In 2004 Walmart Transacton DB contains 200 TB of Data. v) Total Digital Data created in 2012 is assumed to be 270000 PB. As per a report these data will grow at a rate of 40% annually. Big Data Technique is getting lot of importance now a days from organisations to handle those data as well as using them in business growth. Big Data is a technology that uses data that is diverse, huge and require special skill to handle it. In other word conventional technology will not be able to effectively handle it....

The next phase of demand for IT professional will come from Big Data . It is a high paying job and the demand is huge. So this is a great news for IT professional. Making money from Big Data is a challenge. Here Data analytics come handy. Data analytics can be of different background which include data science, data mining, web analytics or even statistics. IT professional have to work in tandem with Data Analyst in order to get something meaningful from the huge quantity of data. One of the major complain of Data Analysts is that they don't get enough support from their IT team. This is a major deterrent in their work. Other major problem Data Analyst face is the quality of Data given to them. They are poorly documented and they have to spend huge amount of time in reformatting those data. IT professional must understand the need of Data Analyst and must prepare data according to their need so that they can use their time in analysing the data instead of reformatting it...