Challenges of Working with Big Data: Beyond the 3Vs

Among many challenges in working with big data, the 3V’s (Volume, Velocity, and Variety) have gotten a lot of attention. Googling yields many results worth reading. Almost all of these focus on technological challenges in managing and processing big data. In this post, I would like to highlight a different set issues that make working with big data challenging, even if the underlying infrastructure is admirably able to handle all three V’s.(more…)