What is Big Data? We are living in an era where a huge volume of data has been generated. The below points indicates the rate at which data has been generated in the world. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. According to IBM, 80% of data captured today is unstructured, from sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals, to name a few. All of this unstructured data is Big Data. Definition : Gartner defines Big Data as high volume, velocity, and variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. If your company is dealing with a set of data that makes you difficult to process and make information out of it, then you are f...