Information Governance Principles and Practices for a Big Data Landscape

Preface

The growth of data over the past five years has been staggering, yet it will pale beside the data volumes that are predicted for just the next five years alone. The variety of data continues to grow far beyond traditional databases and spreadsheets to encompass a huge array of sensor feeds, social media blogs and tweets, video recordings, call records, operational logs, and many more forms of data. This volume and variety of data comes at a faster and faster velocity. Volume, variety, and velocity are the original three “Vs” of big data, which is data that is expected to transform individual organizations and entire industries through new insights.

All of this big data underpins the analysis of multiple sources along multiple dimensions ...