What is Big Data used for?

It is becoming increasingly frequent and necessary for companies to incorporate solutions, tools and features based on data analysis into their strategies. The demand for experts specializing in Big Data has also increased exponentially in recent years.
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What is Big Data used for?
What is Big Data used for?

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It is becoming increasingly frequent and necessary for companies to incorporate solutions, tools and features based on data analysis into their strategies. The demand for experts specializing in Big Data has also increased exponentially in recent years.

Big Data offers many possibilities, many of them yet to be explored. But there is no doubt that it is here to stay, so everyone needs to have at least a working knowledge of the sector. This quiz is a chance for you to remind yourself of certain aspects and some curious facts.

After the boom in the creation and distribution of information, companies have focused on recruiting profiles capable of managing these vast sums of data. This is the profile of the Big Data expert they are looking for.

Big Data applied to the banking business offers many new possibilities. APIs specialized in technologies like deep learning and automatic learning enable users to extract relevant information from Big Data in order to define products, segment customers, effectively manage risk and detect fraud. In this last area, in the summer of 2017 the Spanish internal revenue service launched a platform to detect fraudulent practices, based on data analysis.

There are numerous other initiatives on the market, all incorporating solutions, tools and features based on data analysis:

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