Explain Big Data to a Six-Year-Old

Daddy, what is Big Data?

Nam Nguyen
Towards Data Science
4 min readMay 16, 2020

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Being an expecting parent, I have an unspeakable fear that one day my child will articulate its first serious concern: “Daddy, what is Big Data?”.

That might not turn into a reality, but when my children wonder about their father’s profession, how could I explain the notion of Big Data to them?

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