Q and A on Big Data: Dr. Christopher Garcia, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Mary Washington’s College of Business
By Jennifer Henderson This blog post is our third Question and Answer (Q&A) session (see the previous two here and here). In this Q&A, Dr. Garcia discusses “big data” and its importance to business. Dr. Garcia also recently wrote an article on big data for The Free Lance-Star. In addition to working at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA, Dr. Garcia is a partner at Blueshift Analytics LLC, a small company that specializes in providing advanced analytics consulting and technology development. What is big data? Big data refers to the vast quantities of data that are constantly being produced from myriads of different sources, such as social media, blogs, sensors, satellites, and transaction records. Big data is often characterized by the so-called "three Vs": big volume, big variety,…
