Big Dat Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values Review

Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values Review Big Data is defined as extremely large data sets that can be used to analyze and compute to reveal patterns and trends, and associations. The US first started to collect data through the First Census and crop yields to track our harvest and how to improve on it. Today we do the same thing but on a much larger scale. In 2011 we hit 1.8 zettabytes of data generated in that year, that is 1,000,000,000,000 gigabytes of data we have to analyze and compute, and it was estimated to quadruple in 2013. The reason we continue to generate more and more data every year is through the technology we have today and the information that they record and transmit to us. Now we have finally come up with a name for this, Internet of Things. The internet of things is every device that can connect to the internet and transmit data, these thing can range from your: car, phone, fridge, thermostat, smart watch, computer, etc. Big Data today will be measured in 3 fields volume, velocity, variety. Volume how b ig the data actually is, how many zettabytes how much space and energy does it cost to have this volume. Velocity how fast we can analyze this data and put it to good use as well as how fast can transfer such volume of data from one location to another. Lastly variety, since the volume of data is so enormous we have and equally wide variety ranging from cat videos on the internet to private leaks to research and scientific papers written