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What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:37 am
by Gerald
Hi,
The new forum is very nice.
I am taking a data mining course and I want to know what is the difference between data mining and big data?
Big data means the data just need to be big like thousands of GBs?
G.
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:40 pm
by gmc
i THINK big data is all about the size. How much data you got
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:13 am
by Gerald
Haha
Of course but I would like to know more. any other view on what is big data?
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:19 am
by admin
Big data is about the volume of data. some people say that big data is data that is too large to be processed by a single computer, which seems like a good definition.
besides that some people have proposed other definitions like the five Vs:
Volume: lot of data
Velocity: data that is updated at high speed
Veracity: data that may be false
etc.
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 11:33 pm
by gmc
That sounds good.
another V Is Variety, the data can be of different types, or format
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:05 am
by admin
Yes, thanks for adding this.
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 4:04 pm
by farmy
But data mining and data science, is there a difference? I see many people talking about the data science nowadays instead of the data mining. Please let me know what is the difference if any.
Re: What is the difference between data mining and big data?
Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 4:39 pm
by admin
For me, data mining and data science are very similar words.
In general, data mining is an older term, and data science is the newer, more trendy word.
I observe that data science is often used by people who have a statistic background, while data mining tend to be more used by people with a computer science background. That may not always be the case, but it is my impression.