Category Archives: Data Growth
3 Big Data Milestones
If you were asked to name the top three events in the history of the IT industry, which ones would you choose? Here’s my list: June 30, 1945: John Von Neumann published the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, … Continue reading
Big Data Bytes of the Week: The End of Big Data?
The end of Big Data? Based on his discussions with CIOs, reports Derrick Harris at GigaOm, Opera Solutions’ CEO Arnab Gupta “thinks the analytics market will crest around the end of next year as CIOs face enormous data spikes.” Is … Continue reading
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What Happens on the Web in 60 Seconds (Infographic)
Source: Qmee
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A Very Short History of Big Data
In addition to researching A Very Short History of Data Science, I have also been looking at the history of how data became big. Here I focus on the history of attempts to quantify the growth rate in the volume … Continue reading
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Data is Eating the World: The new face of globalization
McKinsey: The growth of trade compared with the growth of GDP in this decade has been half of that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while global capital flows as a percentage of GDP have dropped precipitously since the … Continue reading
Data is Eating the World: A New Economy
The Economist: Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change. Flows of data have created new infrastructure, new businesses, new monopolies, new politics and—crucially—new economics. Digital information is unlike any … Continue reading
Best of 2019: Betting on Data Eating the World
[July 23, 2109] Data is eating the world. All businesses, non-profits, and governments around the world are now in full digital transformation mode, figuring out what data can do to the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of their … Continue reading
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2020 Predictions for the Internet of Things (IoT)
IDC 2020 predictions for the Internet of Things (IoT): In 2020, 90% of organizations will have determined key performance indicators to measure the success of their IoT projects. By 2021, 75% of organizations embarking on an IoT project will work … Continue reading
Data is Eating the World: 163 Trillion Gigabytes Will Be Created in 2025
Source: Data Age 2025