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Thick Data
What is big data?
Big data is the result of a collaboration between scientists and anthropologists working to understand big data. Together they analyze data and look for qualitative information such as ideas, preferences, motives and reasons for behaviour. With this humanistic information, you can make better business decisions and develop products and services.
What are the benefits of Big Data for companies?
Big data helps companies analyze the data generated by their customers through their online behavior and interactions, decipher their needs, preferences, feelings and complaints, and create more personalized experiences and services with data-driven business solutions. The real power of big data is that it allows companies to humanize mountains of data to understand what drives their customers and segment them to create sales and marketing strategies that are specific to each group.
Literal Meanings of Thick Data
Thick:
Meanings of Thick:
The thickest, most active, or most intense part of anything.
Scrub.
To thicken.
Relatively large surface-to-surface expansion in the smallest solid size.
Measure the number of units in that dimension.
Thick and heavy construction.
Busy or full.
Have a viscous consistency.
Numerous.
Impenetrable in sight.
(with accent) Excellent, strong.
Freak.
Friendly or intimate.
Deep, intense or deep.
Unreasonably uncomfortable.
(mostly women) Lush and voluptuous, especially with big hips.
Frequent or numerous.
Sentences of Thick
Chaos reigned at the center of the battle.
I need two inch thick boards.
His neck was so thick that he had to bend down to look from side to side.
We cross the dense undergrowth.
My mom's sauce was thick, but at least mobile.
The room was packed with journalists.
We drove through thick fog.
It was as thick as two short planks.
They were as as thieves.
Thick darkness.
The snow was thick on the ground.
Arrows flew thick and fast around us.
Synonyms of Thick
teeming, tight-knit, glutinous, overflowing, thick as ■■■■■■■■ pally, viscous, opaque, thick as two short planks, swarming, close, chunky, thickset, solid, close-knit, packed, extreme, friendly, great, crowded, broad, stocky, dense, intimate, chummy
Data:
Meanings of Data:
(plural: data) A measure of something on a scale that both the writer (person or device) and the reader (another person or device) can understand. The scale is set arbitrarily, e.g. 1-10 times one, 1-100 times 0.1, or just true or false, on or off, yes, no or maybe, etc.
(plural: data) A fact known by direct observation.
(plural: data) the starting point from which conclusions are drawn.
(plural: dates) A fixed reference point or coordinate system.
