FACTSHEET: What is big data? - GIS user technology news https://gisuser.com Mobile, Technology, and Business news Wed, 08 Oct 2014 03:28:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.6 FACTSHEET: What is big data? https://gisuser.com/2014/04/factsheet-what-is-big-data/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=factsheet-what-is-big-data Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:43:35 +0000 http://gis-user.com/2014/04/factsheet-what-is-big-data/ Every minute the world generates 1.7 million billion bytes of data, equivalent to 360,000 standard DVDs. More digitised data was created in the last two years than in the rest of human history. This trend and the mountains of data it produces is what we call "Big data". The big data sector is growing at […]

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