Don't be fooled into thinking that big data just relies on technology

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As big data becomes increasingly popular, it's occasionally worth taking a step back to think about what companies are looking to achieve as well as the necessary elements. Even if is in the world the most ancient market also uses the big data, take the Istanbul Grand Bazaar as the example, the answer which the store staff receives with other characteristics which may discover immediately unifies, for example the customer age, wears the wristwatch the type, the intelligent handset model even clothes brand. If - possibly causes the customer to match by chance.Incredible is, all these complete in several minutes. 

 Lets take another example, Tesco introduced heat-sensing sensors to monitor the number of people in the store, with the company claiming this led to a 10% increase in pre-tax profits. The technology collected information such as the number of people in each queue, the average wait time and even the average store performance. By introducing the technology, they managed to automise their big data collection and analyse the trends across all of their stores so they knew how many staff they would need working at any time as well as how many checkout tills to keep open.

 source https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/oct/26/big-data-use-cases-grand-bazaar-starbucks-tesco

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