I want to share an article I found at The New York Times.
Welcome to the Age of Big Data. The new megarich of Silicon Valley, first at Google and now Facebook, are masters at harnessing the data of the Web — online searches, posts and messages — with Internet advertising.
What is Big Data? A meme and a marketing term, for sure, but also shorthand for advancing trends in technology that open the door to a new approach to understanding the world and making decisions. There is a lot more data, all the time, growing at 50 percent a year, or more than doubling every two years, estimates IDC, a technology research firm. It’s not just more streams of data, but entirely new ones. For example, there are now countless digital sensors worldwide in industrial equipment, automobiles, electrical meters and shipping crates. They can measure and communicate location, movement, vibration, temperature, humidity, even chemical changes in the air.
If you guys want to read the whole article go to this link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html?_r=0
It is crazy to think how much more information is available at our fingertips than there ever used to be. It's important to know what to believe and what not too.
ReplyDeleteA great article, do you feel like Big Data is a good thing or bad thing. Do you think if they limited everybody to a certain amount of data, the world would be different, would people be able to adapt?
ReplyDeleteThat was a great article, thanks for sharing it. I really wasn't sure what big data meant. That definitely helped clarify it more for me to understand.
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