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Big Data Is Mostly Deep and Dark

There's a crazy amount of data out there. There's even more that's not.
Mar | 1 | 2013

Mar | 1 | 2013
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While researching the new book, I was shocked to discover that we can only see the tip of the Big Data iceberg. InfoSys has put together a visual on the “dark” nature of Big Data. How deep and dark? Extremely.

The lesson here: Think about the enormity of the data out there. What you can’t see is actually much bigger than what you can see.

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