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. 2017 Jul 17;4:110. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00110

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Characteristics of big data: volume, variety, velocity, and value. Arrows represent that data are progressively getting larger (more volume), more variable, and are accruing at faster rates than historically in the field of veterinary epidemiology. Italicized words are examples of types of data in veterinary epidemiology that meet some combination of volume, variety, and velocity.