The more, the merrier. The bigger, the better
IDEA No 99
BIG DATA
Every minute, 2 million searches are made, half a billion links are shared and 48 hours of footage are uploaded. That is a lot of data. And yet, in terms of how much is being produced worldwide, it barely scratches the surface. That is Big Data.
The Quake-Catcher Network is the world’s largest low-cost, strong-motion seismic network. It is a collaborative initiative that utilizes the sensors in internet-connected computers.
Big Data is the term used to describe data sets that are so large and complex that it takes a phenomenal amount of processing power to interrogate them. So why ...
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