In a comment on FCW's April 15 article, "Sketching the big picture on big data," a reader offered a definition of the term: An easily scalable system of unstructured data with accompanying tools that ...

Some ten years ago, I started writing about what we then called "big data" for ZDNet; in fact, I was the first person at ZDNet focused on it exclusively. Coming from a consulting background in ...

Plenty of people have foreseen the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis, but when computers become good enough to understand literature, art and human history, will it ...

Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...

This vintage image depicts three musicians playing Yankee Doodle Dandy during the American Revolution. In a May 2011 special research report, Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, ...