articleThe Scientific World JOURNALJan 1, 2014GOLD OA

Big Data: Survey, Technologies, Opportunities, and Challenges

Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan · University of Malaya · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

Big Data has gained much attention from the academia and the IT industry. In the digital and computing world, information is generated and collected at a rate that rapidly exceeds the boundary range. Currently, over 2 billion people worldwide are connected to the Internet, and over 5 billion individuals own mobile phones. By 2020, 50 billion devices are expected to be connected to the Internet. At this point, predicted data production will be 44 times greater than that in 2009. As information is transferred and shared at light speed on optic fiber and wireless networks, the volume of data and the speed of market growth increase. However, the fast growth rate of such large data generates numerous challenges,…

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Keywords
  • Big data
  • Data science
  • Computer science
  • The Internet
  • Domain (mathematical analysis)
  • Volume (thermodynamics)
  • Field (mathematics)
  • World Wide Web
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