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I was once interviewed on a television program, and asked the difference between data and big data. After some thought, I gave them an answer which I will still hold to today: “size.”
A change in quantity also entails a change in quality.
– Friedrich Engels
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Skiena, S.S. (2017). Big Data: Achieving Scale. In: The Data Science Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0_12
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