big data

Etymology
In 2000, economist Francis X. Diebold published the first version of a paper titled “Big Data Dynamic Factor Models for Macroeconomic Measurement and Forecasting.” After being interviewed on his use of the term “big data” by NYTimes.com blogger Steve Lohr, Diebold undertook his own investigation, in which he concluded: “The term ‘Big Data,’ which spans computer science and statistics/econometrics, probably originated in the lunch-table conversations at Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) in the mid 1990s, in which figured prominently.”

Noun

 * 1) Data on a very large scale, such that it can only be gathered or processed with computers, especially with reference to its potential to allow for new breakthroughs or understanding in a particular field of study.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: groot data, grootdata
 * Arabic:
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 * Danish: Big Data
 * Finnish: massadata
 * French:
 * German: Big Data, Massendaten
 * Indonesian:, data raya
 * Italian: megadati
 * Japanese: ビッグデータ
 * Korean: 빅 데이터
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stordata, big data
 * Nynorsk: stordata
 * Portuguese: megadados, macrodados, grandes dados
 * Russian: большие да́нные
 * Spanish:, inteligencia de datos
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish: büyük veri
 * Vietnamese: dữ liệu lớn