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Solution: Big data

Solution: Big data

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Solution: Big data

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- In the prior video, I gave you some background on big data and shared a scenario where a government agency launched a big data project with the intent of better serving its citizens. After a year, the reports produced from the project disappointed the agency, not revealing information deemed helpful to the project sponsors. I then asked you, what changes could have been deployed to get better outcomes? Early in this course, we discussed requirements. We showed that comprehensive customer expectation management on functional requirements is critical to producing a product that meets customer needs. It appears the project team failed to collect detailed requirements beyond the statement that asked for a focus on trends about how things have changed in the community in the past 10 years. Gaining a better understanding of government officials information requirements for the project would've been helpful. Questions such as, what are you going to use the data for? What information do you…

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