Beijing, southwestern province team for IT project

Look ahead to the upcoming meetings of the nation's top decision-makers, Zhongguancun Science Park is hosting an event to promote the development of the big data industry together with the southwestern province of Guizhou.

Opening today, the Promotion Conference for Guizhou-Beijing Big Data Industry Development today aims to inform officials, experts and entrepreneurs about the opportunities for big data in Guizhou, which is often overlooked as a less-developed region, organizers said.

Big data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data-processing applications. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, transfer, analysis and visualization.