Sources and types of big data

We learned that big data is omnipresent and that it can be beneficial for enterprises in one or many ways. With the high prevalence of big data from existing hardware and software, enterprises are still struggling to process, store, analyze, and manage big data using traditional data-mining tools and techniques. In this section, we are going to explore the sources of these complex and dynamic data and how can we consume them. 

We can separate the sources of the data into three major categories. The following diagram shows the three major sources of big data:

Let's look into the three major sources one by one: ...

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