A General View of Big Data and Machine Learning

Abstract

Nowadays, winds of digitalization have continuing blow in the world. No one cannot ignore these kinds of changes and is continuing to cause dramatic changes in our lives. Big data is one of the crucial parts of these changes. Nowadays, almost millions of people have become the main element providing the data flow. Furthermore, they are continuing to perform it voluntarily and willingly. As a result, companies, industries, and other stakeholders have started to encounter a very huge volume of data about their customers. However, most of the data are not be useful because they are not structured. This chapter is organized into two parts. In the first part, the big data concept was explained and its important elements were discussed. In the second stage, machine learning and its elements were presented information on some computational tools used for converting the unstructured data to structured data. © 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.