Big Data is big. It is so big that we reduce the term to a singular noun rather than its proper plural counterpart. It is big enough to create a myth surrounding itself.
Myths are notoriously self-referential. Although Big Data is just an input to AI, it is viewed as having a life of its own. The myth is exemplified by a few statistics.
• The Big Data analytics market is set to reach $103 billion by 2023.
• Internet users generate about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.
• A person needs 181 million years to download all Internet data.
• In 2020, there will be around 40 trillion gigabytes of data.
What statistics reveal is suggestive and what they conceal is essential. Size numbers are impressive. Many come ...
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