G18GITEX 2018TechTalks · Big Data

Mining Big Data

What is Big Data? How is that evolved over the last few years?

Dr. Gurdal Ertek’s notes for the GITEX 2018 Big Data Tech Talk.

  What is Big Data? How is that evolved over the last few years?
  • The Role of Open Data especially in the government sector / public sector
  • Rule 1: “If you can fit on a DVD (4.7GB), you may still call it “small data”. Anything larger than that can be called “big data”.”
  • Rule 2: “MB and GB are small, TB and more are big”
  • Good news: Most companies still do not have big data, and do not need big data for big gains.
  • Magnitude of Big Data (Source: Forbes, https://bit.ly/2C5LwcL )
  • EVERY MINUTE:
    • YouTube users watch 4,146,600 YouTube videos (20,000 DVDs streamed per minute)
    • Instagram users post 46,740 photos
    • There are 154,200 calls on Skype
  • EVERY DAY:
    • 5 billion people are active on Facebook daily
    • On average, Google now processes more than 40,000 searches EVERY second (5 billion searches per day)!
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