Megadata

Quick meaning: Megadata is a noun meaning Extremely large collections of electronically-stored data.

Meaning

Extremely large collections of electronically-stored data.

More Meanings

1. (more specifically) Large collections of personal data that are gathered and maintained by companies for commercial exploitation.

Example Sentences

An entity may also be selected by traversing a tree of increasingly specific names, which solves the "megadata" problem of searching one large dataset instead of many small sets [Sims 1994].

In nearly every case, each car and SUV and truck and bus was continuously signaling its position for the benefit of commercial collectors of megadata, police agencies—and whoever owned the future.

Experience with "megadata," large collections of remote objects presented to users, suggests that users typically view large collections of icons, but open only a few of them for detailed inspection.

Examples of megadata-systems are Facebook, eBay, Twitter etc. Such systems raise questions regarding privacy, legality, and ethics, but, at the same time, have already been able to readily provide clinicians with important medical (although uncensored) information, like Google has.

Word Forms

• mega-data

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include metadatum, megatsunami, megamarket, multimegatons, metastring, mailstore.

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