What's the Big Deal About Big Data?

The volume and variety of digital data have grown in recent years, as have analytics capacities - a phenomenon dubbed 'big data'. What drives the promise of big data, what are the risks and criticisms, and how can development benefit from the 'data revolution', asks SciDev.Net.

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