Big Data is a term that refers to large sets of data that cannot be processed or stored in a typical computing and storage environment. It has become increasingly important as businesses struggle ...

Let's take a look at some of the key characteristics of 'big data' and business intelligence, then dive into how data is used at Miami.

By Svetlana Sicular Gartner, Inc. Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes ...

The 5 V’s of Big Data — volume, variety, velocity, veracity and value — are huge factors in how state and local government IT agencies should use data.

“Big data” without a “big theory” to go with it loses much of its potency and usefulness, potentially generating new unintended consequences.

In this first paper, we introduce the reader to many salient features of big data and develop these in relation to data pertaining to cities, particularly through the current wave of interest in ...