2013/09/20 by Jonathan S. Ward, Adam Barker, Ward, Jonathan Stuart +1 · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Big Data Technologies and Applications #Big Data and Business Intelligence #Databases (cs.DB) #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.5821
openalex publication_date 2013/09/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The term big data has become ubiquitous. Owing to a shared origin between academia, industry and the media there is no single unified definition, and various stakeholders provide diverse and often contradictory definitions. The lack of a consistent definition introduces ambiguity and hampers discourse relating to big data. This short paper attempts to collate the various definitions which have gained some degree of traction and to furnish a clear and concise definition of an otherwise ambiguous term.