This new selection process was a huge success and the much-improved and heavier sheep were called Leicestershire sheep, and the cattle were known as Leicestershire Long-Horns. Robert Bakewell then continued with his work and went on to produce a new breed of black horses for both farm and army work.
In defining big data, itâs also important to understand the mix of unstructured and multi-structured data that comprises the volume of information. Unstructured data comes from information that is not organized or easily interpreted by traditional databases or data models, and typically, itâs text-heavy.
You will also see the term big data when you encounter predictive analysis: in order to make predictive decisions, you need a LOT of data (customer, business, real-time, stored, etc.). Because predictive analysis is often used against big data, organizations purchase other software to help them extract and analyze the data.