Introduction to the 3Vs in Big Data The properties of big data have been defined by the 3Vs which are volume, velocity, and variety. The 3Vs refer to the different data types such as, the volume is the amount of data, velocity is the speed at which the data is processed and variety is the different types of data. The 3Vs of Big Data Volume: The volume in big data is the amount of data which is generated through different sources. For example, social media has a lot of text, images, videos and different multimedia shared through it where Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram have combined over 4 billion-plus accounts from which data is shared in huge volume. Velocity: The speed at which data gets generated to be processed using big data can be termed as Velocity. The amounts of data that is being uploaded on different social media platforms every day are in millions of photos, videos and tweets. This is like a sand storm and big data helps companies to stand th...