Big Data - Tim Smith
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There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
The key characteristics of Big Data are often called the 3Vs: Volume, Velocity, and Variety. Explain the role each one of these plays in making Big Data hard to handle. The complexity of some data sets leads people to add extra dimensions such as Veracity and Variability to this list. In what ways do these complicate things further?
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Meet The Creators
- Director Biljana Labović
- Animation Artist Celeste Lai, Lisa LaBracio
- Composer Corey Allen Jackson
- Sound Designer Jennifer Lewis
- Educator Tim Smith
- Narrator Tim Smith
