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Example

Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate to deal with them. Challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy.

A general example of big data:

Data collected by social networking site facebook. Facebook collects hundreds of terabytes(TB) of data every day. Data collected may be images, videos, posts, updates, etc. The data varies from structured to unstructured. A like, share or reaction maybe structured data as we clearly know the structure of it. Whereas updates or posts are unstructured data which don't exactly follow a structure. All this data together forms BigData!