Category Archives: Data Growth
5.2 billion mobile users, 292 billion gigabytes mobile traffic by 2019
In February 2015, Cisco released the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, 2014 – 2019. Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2019: There will be 5.2 billion global mobile users, up from 4.3 billion … Continue reading
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Recruiting Data Scientists to Mine the Data Explosion
Wes Hunt, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on recruiting data scientists: Finding talent is my largest challenge. Someone who understands our business, who has quantitative skills, who has the technical skills to create the models, … Continue reading
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The First Law of Big Data
EMC released today the 5th annual Digital Universe study from IDC. So now we have five years’ worth of estimating, with a consistent methodology, the amount of data created and copied annually in the world. It turns out that the … Continue reading
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