Understanding BigData: Its Characteristics, Challenges, and Benefits
5 min readMay 12, 2021
In this tutorial, we will focus on what is big data, its characteristics, types, benefits, barriers, and job roles.
In this world of information, people are generating and consuming more-more data from each aspect of life. Human activities such as shopping, traveling, utility bills, banking operations, citizen, and government services are on electronic platforms. Organizations are moving from paper to digital platforms for most of the activities. These all activities generating tons of data every day…