8V's

The different types of data generated, unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data

• Variety

• Variability

• Viscosity

• Visualization

Refers to the resistance when navigating through a data collection

• Viscosity

• Variability

• Volume

• Velocity

The ways in which the Big Data can be used and formatted

• Variability

• Viscosity

• Veracity

• value

The business value of data collected

• value

• volume

• velocity

• variaty

It is difficult to use traditional graphs when trying to plot a billion data points, so we need different ways of representing data

• Visualization

• Viscosity

• Value

• Variety

Refers to how trustworthy data is. If the data is not accurate or of poor quality, it is of little use

• Veracity

• viscosity

• velocity

• volume

The speed at which data is generated, collected and analyzed

• velocity

• variaty

• viscosity

• volume

The massive amount of data from so many sources

• volume

• value

• viscosity

• variety