October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
In recent years, we have seen an exponential growth in data generated by humans and machines. Varied sources, including home sensors, healthcare-related monitoring devices, news feeds, conversations on social media, images, and worldwide commerce transactions—an endless list—contribute to the vast volumes of data generated every day.
Facebook had 1.28 billion daily active users in March 2017 sharing close to four million pieces of unstructured information as text, images, URLs, news, and videos (Source: Facebook). 1.3 billion Twitter users share approximately 500 million tweets a day (Source: Twitter). Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in lights, thermostats, sensor in cars, watches, smart ...