Big data: Difference between revisions

From ACT Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
imported>Doug Williamson
m (Minor clarifications in wording.)
imported>Doug Williamson
(Add link.)
Line 8: Line 8:


== See also ==
== See also ==
[[Operational risk]]
*[[GDPA]]
*[[Operational risk]]


[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 10:36, 18 July 2016

Big data refers to the large volumes of historically unstructured information held by organisations.


Big data technology interrogates this previously unstructured information to produce more useful summarised and selected data and analysis.

For example, anti-fraud technology in banks can analyse how often bank customers log into their account, where they usually log in from, and how quickly they type in their user name and password.


See also