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Big data have been associated with some common misconceptions so far, and this chapter will help the reader in identify and understand those fallacies. It is going to be then shown the best data deployment approach, followed by an ideal internal data management process. A four-stages development structure will be provided, in order to assess the big data internal advancements, and a data maturity map will summarize a set of relevant metrics that should be considered for an efficient big data strategy.
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Corea, F. (2016). What Data Science Means to the Business. In: Big Data Analytics: A Management Perspective. Studies in Big Data, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38992-9_2
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