A city manager wants one council-ready sentence defining Big Data beyond "lots of data." Which definition fits CertiProf BDPC fundamentals?
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Short Explanation
"Lots of data" is a slogan, not a definition. Council wants the practical line: the stuff that is so large, messy, or fast-growing that the usual tools choke. Cloud storage alone or "we share a sheet" do not magically rename ordinary data as Big Data.
Full Explanation
BDPC defines Big Data by the difficulty of capture, management, processing, and analysis with conventional tools when size, complexity, and growth combine. Location (cloud vs on premises), a single media type such as video, or simple multi-department spreadsheet sharing do not by themselves establish that threshold. The council-ready sentence should stress the tooling and complexity barrier, not storage venue or file-sharing habits.