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Big Data Glossary and Key Terms

Big data analytics provides both opportunities and challenges for organizations. It allows companies to gain insights from vast amounts of customer data to improve products and services. However, it also raises privacy concerns as more personal data is collected and shared. The future of big data analytics involves addressing these challenges through new technologies, while continuing to derive value from data in areas like healthcare, transportation and smart cities.

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Big Data Glossary and Key Terms

Big data analytics provides both opportunities and challenges for organizations. It allows companies to gain insights from vast amounts of customer data to improve products and services. However, it also raises privacy concerns as more personal data is collected and shared. The future of big data analytics involves addressing these challenges through new technologies, while continuing to derive value from data in areas like healthcare, transportation and smart cities.

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Big Data Analytics: Opportunities, Challenges and the Future

Griffith University

Week 1
Glossary
Algorithm: a sequence of operations to be carried out by a computer.
Big data: a set of data with characteristics that cannot be handled with standard
computer hardware and software.
Bluetooth: a technology to transfer data wirelessly over a short distance between
sender and receiver.
Citizen science: scientific work carried out with public involvement.
Cookie: a small package of data, stored on a user’s computer, which contains
information about the user’s web browsing activity.
Data analytics: an investigation of data to characterise the data or derive new
insights from it.
Data mining: a specific type of data analytics that aims to discover patterns in
large datasets, often using machine learning techniques.
Data science: an interdisciplinary field, combining data analytics methods from
computer science with other domain sciences.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation): a regulation covering the
processing of data related to individuals in the European Union.
GPS (Global Positioning System): a navigation system to determine the location
of a compatible receiver.
Machine learning: algorithms and statistical methods implemented on a
computer, allowing the computer to automatically improve on the analysis of the
data it is given.
NFC (Near-Field Communication): a group of communication protocols to
transfer data wirelessly over a very short distance between sender and receiver.
RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification): a technology to transfer data wirelessly
over a short to medium distance between sender and receiver.
Sentiment analysis: a method to detect the sentiment in written data towards a
topic.
Wearable technology: devices worn on the body that collect data, usually about
the physical state of the person wearing them.
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