Chapter 2Big Data
Great that we could learn a bit of the IoT, let us see the other side of the coin that is called Big Data. For example, about 300 petabytes of data items are being added monthly on Facebook, and every second Picasa album is getting more photos which are even much bigger activities than Facebook. According to the Global Market Intelligence Firm, IDC Corporate, USA, digital data is about eight to ten zettabytes even in 2015, which means we are already dealing with big data volumes. Let us imagine that we shall be getting regular inputs from all the different species, which means about 9 million data items minimum for every second though in principle we shall be getting about 250 Kbps data from every ...
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