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LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY
Name : Nitish Sharma
Subject : CAP-456
Roll No : RD2110A15
Section : D2110 Group A
Assigned Set : A
Submitted To :
Dr. Apash Roy

Big Data
Big data can be defined as data sets which are too
large and complex for traditional data processing and
data management applications. Nowadays Big Data
became popular with the advancement of mobile
technology and the Internet of Things.
People are producing lots of data with Mobile Phones
and many other sources, most of the sources uses
Internet. Internet is one of the main reasons of origin of
Big Data.
Big Data needed to be handled in efficient and cost
effecting ways. Big Data comes from loads of resources
some of them are like E-Mail , Multimedia , Internet of
Things , Social Networking and many-many more.
Big data is used for gaining valuable information which
is used to process and improve revenue and
advancements of a product or an organisation.
Cost optimization : Using big data, companies are able
to improve their business strategies, boost productivity
by handling disasters before they occur, and focus
more on the business rather than worrying about
operational aspects, thus reducing overall cost.
Innovative services : Using big data technologies,
businesses are able to understand customer
preferences better, and form their marketing strategies

accordingly. This enables them to develop better
products and services in future.
Various Sources of Data in Big
Data
 Social Media Networks
 Multimedia Data
 Financial Data
 Internet of Things
 Weather Forecasts
 Websites Data
 Sensors
 Cloud Data
 Databases
 Mobiles App Data

Databases
Sensors
Mobile
Apps Data
Multimedia
Data
Websites
Data
Internet of
Things
Sources of
Big Data
Social Media
Networks
Cloud Data
Financial
Data
Weather
Forecast

Social Media Networks
The primary source of all the big data today is the
social media networks. In the last twenty years the
social media industry has grown at a very large rate,
which results in a wide array of data or we can call it
big data. This is very large unstructured data that is
represented by millions of social media posts and other
data that is generated every other second through user
interactions on the web across the world. Increase in
access to the internet across the world has been a self-
fulfilling act for the growth of data in social networks.
Practical Use Case of Social Media
Networks:
Social networks offer free and fast communication with
people usually in multiple forms such as tweets,
pictures, videos and texts. Another attractive feature
is creation of groups for multicast communication with
friends, colleagues or family members. The most
popular social media platforms are given below.
Facebook : A social networking website that makes it
easy to connect and share with family and friends. For
availing the services users have to create personal
profiles. Interactions are in the form of ‘posts’ which
may be text, images or videos, and users can indicate
their preferences for the content, articles,