Big Data and Data Science: Is This Hype?

Big Data is one of those heavily abused technology terms today.  It’s become a catch-all phrase used to fit any data related problem into.  When the pundits defined the traits of Big Data and articulated the 3Vs, Volume, Velocity and Variety, little did we realize that the lack of clarity on whether it had to be all the 3Vs provided the perfect fertile grounds for term abuse.
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