Big Data: Definition, Importance, Elements

Document Type : Original Article

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Digital Library - Minia University - Egypt

Abstract

This article aims to identify the nature of big data and its Analytics, its importance and elements, monitor big data in libraries, identify the challenges facing the application of big data analytics, and identify the types of big data analytics, and one of the most important findings of the study is that big data Analytics helps to monitor and discover aspects of Strengths and weaknesses, and provides officials with solutions to problems according to the results of the Analytics, commensurate with the nature of the entity or body, and that the Analytics of big data increases the chances of competition in order to achieve new features and results. It increases the chances of development and development and that the Analytics of big data helps in making correct decisions, and increasing the chances of predicting the future, and the tools of big data Analytics are represented in three main tools, namely, the exploration tools, the Analytics tools and the tools for displaying the results, and that the library’s data is considered huge data because of its holdings of clear diversity, and high speed, And the huge size, and the big data analyzes in the library can be benefited from in managing the library’s holdings, databases of beneficiaries and human resource development, in addition to the information services available in the library and in rationalizing the spending policy.

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