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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, ...

In life science research, data comes in many forms - structured clinical trial tables, semi-structured instrument outputs, and unstructured lab notes or images. This “variety” makes it difficult to ...

Big Data is often described in terms of three V’s: volume, velocity and variety. Let's dive into what exactly that means and how state and local governments can begin to tackle Big Data. The hard disk ...