A Critical Review of the Big-Data Paradigm

Methods

This is a special review of reported information with archived data (Strang, 2013), for a purpose to organize and highlight key events in IT and Internet evolutions (Walsham, 1995) which have had a profound impact on future businesses and social human activities. Instead of going through specific needs, features, and performances of concerned analysis, this research is going to approach our targets through the discussions for the following aspects:

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  Review for the trajectories of scientific, technological development;

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  Clarifying some misconceptions from the business and industry circles;

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  Elaborating the connections between big data and information technology;

• 4.

  Summarizing the important moving trends for big-data;

• 5.

  Redefining the big-data attributes and their impacts on strategic plans.

Literature Review

To review the critical concerns of big data development, it is imperative to clarify some misconceptions and the historical process of digital evolutions.