Big Data in American Intelligence Agencies

Big Data refers to extremely large sets of data. Big data tends to have high volume, velocity, and variety. Another way to define big data is to describe the exponential increase and availability of data in our world today. The data can be collected from a large variety of sources, including smartphones, social media, physical sensors, health records, and more. This data can be analyzed and used to form actionable insights, informed decisions, and give a certain group competitive advantages. American Intelligence Agencies like the CIA and FBI could have access to this data, which could be interpreted as a good or a bad thing depending on what they do with the information they access.

Analyzing Big Data: Big data analytics involves the use of advanced analytics techniques against these large and diverse data sets from many different sources, sizes, and structures. By analyzing the data, you can fuel better/faster decision making, modeling, and predictions of future outcomes. Organizations can save costs in storing and analyzing large amount of data if they analyze the data continuously. Companies like IBM can provide solutions to analyze big data.

Some sources: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1514&context=jss https://datasciencedegree.wisconsin.edu/data-science/what-is-big-data/ https://www.ibm.com/analytics/big-data-analytics