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So, as you have already connected the dots, Store to buy clothes, you may look at colors,
this are problems with deep granularity, many size, fashion, practicality, cost, usage, need,
dimensions, usually collected and processed endurance, social fitness, wardrobe fit,
at high speed. alternative stores to buy, and many more.
These are dimensions of the problem. You will
Granularity inevitably collect information about this. But
If our problem has to deal with very specific how will you do it? Trying? Picking it up?
details for each case, that means lots of data to Strolling around a store and looking at it? Lots
collect. Let's say a written complaint or an of data in a variety of forms, all there to be
invoice, for example. This isn't only a page. stored (pun intended) and processed.
This page gets its meaning from the words in it, Speed
this words have context and form, and create a
collective meaning. To understand it, you have Humans are slow and inaccurate when
to relate this to large datasets where you can producing and collecting data, so we have
get the meaning, to accept all forms, to populated the world with sensors of many
embrace the way people express themselves, kinds. From the simplest, like thermometers, to
like using pictures, even video. Sometimes you the more complex, like SETI. And in between,
e v e n h a v e t o u n d e r s t a n d t h e we now have cameras everywhere, beacons,
person/organization, or at least the hotspots, GSM, 3G, 4G, 5G, radars, satellite
relationship you've established with her/it. imagery, location/movement, System-to-
system communications, traffic, automation,
Dimensionality even objects are becoming a source for this
You often read and hear how our 3D world kind of data, with IoT. So, even if the all world
th
has a 4 dimension, time, and it has become lied down and took a nap we would still have a
common to hear about the 5 dimension or huge amount of data being processed.
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other-wordly buzzwords, but the fact is that all Because systems don't take naps and they
phenomena is n-dimensional, which just move at very high speeds. And take data even
means it has many sides to it. If you go to a from the non-moving parts.
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