Volume Velocity & Variety of Big Data| 3 V's of Big Data|

In the last blog, we learned about what Big data is and now we have laid down the 3 V's that form this Big data.

• Volume: Data collected is immense and gathered through various platforms like IoT devices, social media platforms, surveys, etc. The data collected is both structured & unstructured and is of different value in different areas of business and cross terabytes or even petabytes of space for some organizations.

• Velocity: It is the speed at which data is collected and processed, with growth in technologies and data collection instruments like IoT devices & RFID, information is gathered in real-time & requires to be dealt with in real-time speed as well.

• Variety: Data is available in a lot of variety. Along with structured data, the new data is unstructured or semi-structured and in different forms like mails, reactions, numerical, texts, audio, video, images, etc.

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References:
'Big Data: The 3V's explained' (no date). available at: https://bigdataldn.com/intelligence/big-data-the-3-vs-explained/
Dave, P. 'Big Data: What is Big Data - 3V's of Big Data'. available at: https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2013/10/02/big-data-what-is-big-data-3-vs-of-big-data-volume-velocity-and-variety-day-2-of-21/