Data: The Big Picture
Kshitiz Khanal
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What is Data?
value assigned to a thing
Big Data
Big is a relative term.
How big is BIG Data?
2.5 Quintillion
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FIFA Ranking of Nepal
While a picture is worth a
thousand words,
a prototype is worth 10,000.
And a visualization is worth
more than megabytes.
5 Ways Big Data Will Change the World
Medicine
Security
Urban Planning
Consumer Products
Elections
Courtesy: Steve Ernst
Medicine
Worldwide case history
Security
Facebook tagging
Urban planning
Traffic control
Consumer products
Custom suggestions
Election campaigns
Predictions
Why start now?
You!
Okay, where do I start?
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Some interesting resources
GapMinder.org
FlowingData.com
DataScienceMasters.org
Coursera.org
Udacity.com
Data and Nepal
Data, the big picture
Data, the big picture

Data, the big picture

Editor's Notes

  • #5 Qualitative, Quantitative, Categorical, Discrete, Continuous