Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

Data

The amount of data we have today is enormous—as Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, put it in 2016:

"Between the dawn of civilization and 2003, we only created five exabytes; now we're creating that amount every two days. By 2020, that figure is predicted to sit at 53 zettabytes (53 trillion gigabytes)—an increase of 50 times."

That's a lot of data. As the number of digital devices grows, this volume of data will only continue to grow exponentially. Gone are the times when a running car only displayed the speed on the speedometer. We're in an age where every part of the car can be made to produce logs at every split second, enabling us to entirely reconstruct any moment of the car's life.

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