Dig into the master schedule on any major construction project and you will likely find plenty of examples of big data. They might include terabytes of building-information-modeling data tied to perhaps seven different schedules, each with its own logic linked throughout the sequencing of the project.
If the logic that ties some 23,000 activities—about the average in a two-year project—is a bust, the time it takes the project manager to track down the problems manually while the schedule is moving forward can push a project seriously off its calendar. When that happens, everyone's margins are at risk with each cascading delay and threat of litigation.