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Data Analysis or simply the Big Data Analytics is the complete process of data acquisition to final report generation on the application dashboard.

This is big task and requires a lot of technologies. Many technologies are involved at each phase.

Let's see the steps of Data Analysis.

Data Acquisition: This is the process of getting or acquiring the data for analysis. Careful planning is necessary in this phase as wrong data selection may lead to huge cost. Various software and techniques are used for the data acquisition for the Big Data analytics.

Processing of Data: After collection of data it is processed and relevant data is taken and saved to the system

Data Processing: Data is processed and saved into easily analyzable formats.

Data cleaning: Its the cleaning of duplicate, missing or wrong data.

Data analysis: The Data analysis is the final step and various software and technologies are used for the Data Analysis. Data Analysis presents data on the application dashboard which can be used by management for business decisions.

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