Big Data: An Overview

Abstract

Big Data, the new term introduced in the market. Big Data is a blanket term to deal with this surge of
data. It includes unstructured, semi structured and structured data. This large information can convey
enormous benefits to the business organizations, so there must some mechanism to analyze this
information to comprehend decision.Huge data is stored in different formats and in massive volume.
So,accessing data when needed in best possible wayis a big challenge. With the help of any data
extraction technique, useful data can be extracted.In this paper, a general idea of big data's scope,
content, methods and different challenges is given. It also includes discussion on privacy concern on
it.