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Implications of Big Data for Society

Big data helps organisations and also policy makers to develop answers to society’s issues and also to help aid social change e.g monitoring climate changes such as natural disasters to social welfare programs and humanity aiding projects etc. An implication of it would be the cost of implementing big data solutions which makes it challenging for some businesses. Also because it can be biased it means that it can be discriminatory towards certain people of society which is primarily true in the healthcare and financial systems, biased data sets leads to biased results. 



https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/blog/pros-cons-big-data#:~:text=From%20monitoring%20climate%20trends%20and,and%20drive%20positive%20social%20change.

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