Everyone is throwing the term “Big Data” around nowadays, but what do you really need to know about it? After attending a highly informative webinar on Big Data by govloop, I came away with these five key points. This list will give you the basics on Big Data, and the links under each item will allow you to delve deeper into that specific topic.

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