What is the difference between data mining and big data?

Gerald · Post by **Gerald** » Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:37 am

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.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:40 pm

i THINK big data is all about the size. How much data you got

Gerald · Post by **Gerald** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:13 am

Haha

Of course but I would like to know more. any other view on what is big data?

YouTube · Post by **admin** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:19 am

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.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 11:33 pm

That sounds good.
another V Is Variety, the data can be of different types, or format

YouTube · Post by **admin** » Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:05 am

Yes, thanks for adding this.

farmy · Post by **farmy** » Thu May 19, 2022 4:04 pm

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.

YouTube · Post by **admin** » Sat May 21, 2022 4:39 pm

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.