Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Big Data in 1956: IBM Launches the Disk Drive Industry
Today in 1956, IBM announced the 305 and 650 RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting) “data processing machines,” incorporating the first-ever disk storage product. The 305 came with fifty 24-inch disks for a total capacity of 5 megabytes, weighed 1 ton, and could … Continue reading
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The Evolution of Big Data, At CERN and Everywhere Else (Animation)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-0cUmUyb-Y&w=560&h=315] Lesson by Tim Smith, animation by TED-Ed. “But if big data has been around for so long, why do we suddenly keep hearing about it now? Well, as the old metaphor explains, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and … Continue reading
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Big Data and Education (Infographic)
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The Googlization of GE
The machines are taking over big data. In 2008, the number of things connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people on Earth, according to Cisco. Last year, IDC estimated that in 2020, there will be 26 times more connected things than people. … Continue reading
Big Data Far From Maturity: Gartner’s New Hype Cycle
Source: Gartner InformationAge reports: Big data technology will take longer to reach mainstream adoption than previously thought, according to analyst company Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for emerging technologies… In 2012, Gartner estimated that big data would take between two … Continue reading
Big Data Observations: Can We Escape?
“Our time is increasingly occupied by data, and that data is increasingly trivial”–Andre Mouton “Is it even possible to keep sensitive data out of corporations or government hands? There’s a reason old-fashioned devices like typewriters are now being used by … Continue reading
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Big Data Panels at the 2013 MIT CIO Symposium (Video)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWLydZFnFE&w=560&h=315] Moderator: Tom Davenport, Babson College Annabelle Bexiga, TIAA-CREF; Frank Diana, TCS; Jack Norris, MapR; Keith Collins, SAS Institute; Michael Chui, McKinsey Global Institute Davenport: “I’m going to trademark ‘Humongous Data’” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRAI2FBtkn0&w=560&h=315] Moderator: Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Center for Digital Business Prof. Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan … Continue reading
The OED, Big Data, and Crowdsourcing
The term “big data” was included in the most recent quarterly online update of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). So now we have a most authoritative definition of what recently became big news: “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its … Continue reading
Leon Wieseltier and Steven Pinker Debate the Quantified Society
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GevfKLmmMr0&w=560&h=315] “We are becoming a massified, datafied, quantified society, which looks for wisdom in numbers and thinks that numbers can provide certainty… owing to the explosion of so-called big data there has developed excessive confidence in the ability of the … Continue reading
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Big Data Quotes: Decision Making and Big Intuition
“Just because you can’t measure it easily doesn’t mean it’s not important”—Jeff Hammerbacher “[Predictive policing] gives the officers more direction, instead of driving around like drone bees”–Sgt. Bryan Clenna, Seattle Police Department “One of the applications of Big Data is … Continue reading
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