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Computer Science Step 4: Perform basic queries Aim:
Activity 8.19:
Learn how to perform
Exploring big data and key benefits
basic queries on your data
warehouse, then retrieve
specific information and
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To explore and understand the benefits,
generate reports.
through research and documentation
Step 5: Analyse the data features, and applications of big data
Analyse the data within your Materials:
warehouse, gain insights about Computer, Internet or library resources
them and identify trends,
patterns, or anomalies. Instructions:
Use Internet and library search, explore
Deliverable: to understand the details of big data.
Prepare a comprehensive report that In your exploration, do the following:
includes a designed schema for the data Step 1: Analyse key benefits
warehouse; a cleaned, transformed, and Investigate and analyse the significant
loaded dataset; reports generated from advantages brought about by the advent
basic queries; and an analysis report of big data.
highlighting insights, trends, patterns,
or anomalies. Document your work on Step 2: Describe features and use
a portifolio. cases.
Describe the unique
characteristics of big data and
Big data identify its ideal applications.
Big Data handles huge, complex Deliverable:
datasets from various sources like social
media, sensors, and machine logs. It Record your findings systematically,
includes structured, semi-structured, compile them and document in a
and unstructured data that can change portfolio.
quickly. Managing and analyzing Big
Data uses distributed processing and Activity 8.20:
specialized tools, often with distributed
storage systems. Big Data analytics Exploring big data with social media
aims to find insights and patterns, useful analytics
for real-time analysis, social media Aim:
opinions, and scientific studies. NoSQL To explore big data concepts
databases are essential in Big Data for through social media analytics tools
storing and accessing large amounts of to understand data analysis and
unstructured data efficiently. interpretation.
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