Urban Data Analytics: (2) Data storage and processing
1. Introduction Needless to say, big data is “big” in size. So there comes the challenge in storing and processing the data. Often times, you don’t need to worry about data storage because, in many cases you are just given a dataset to work on your hard drive or a server somewhere. If you are involved in data collection aspect of big data, however, you will need to consider where and how to store the data. It varies with industry, but when we talk about big data in today’s te