Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi (Jul 2016)
Big Data: Its Importance, Structure and Current Status
Abstract
Nowadays big data has become a popular concept and it is interpreted as beginning of a new era. While a huge transformation occurs with the creation of big data concept, institutions and organizations' point of view and benets gained from the data have changed and come to a different point. It seems that it is impossible for institutions and organizations staying out of the said transformation. Although big data is a new and popular concept, there are no so many studies having corporate nature in local literature. Despite a few publications having corporate base, numerous institutions and organizations operating in technology eld place a signicant importance to this concept and make big investments. In the study big data has been discussed conceptually and its relation with other concepts, big data technologies and methods used for processing of big data have been explained and different examples regarding institutions creating awareness for big data and usage area of big data around the world have been given.