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FIGURE 2.7
Geo-spatial data usage.
(Image source: Internet)
FIGURE 2.8
Social media channels.
social media channels available to interact with by users. A feed from each channel for each customer
is low volume of data but an extremely high degree of complexity.
Example: Funshots, Inc.
From the preceding examples, we can see how the volume aspect of Big Data gets simply over-
whelming. The complexity is not from the type of data but the size too—100MB per every four
hours versus 1 MB per second makes a lot of difference when you look at the amount of compute and
