Big Data Course- Spring: Unit 12: Lesson 2: Definitions and Taxonomies Subgroup
Channel: Digital Science Center Courses
Date: 2014-02-05

The focus is to gain a better understanding of the principles of Big Data.  It is important to develop a consensus-based common language and vocabulary terms used in Big Data across stakeholders from industry, academia, and government.  In addition, it is also critical to identify essential actors with roles and responsibility, and subdivide them into components and sub-components on how they interact/ relate with each other according to their similarities and differences. 
For Definitions: Compile terms used from all stakeholders regarding the meaning of Big Data from various standard bodies, domain applications, and diversified operational environments. For Taxonomies: Identify key actors with their roles and responsibilities from all stakeholders, categorize them into components and subcomponents based on their similarities and differences. In particular data Science and Big Data terms are discussed