A Short History of

BIGDATA

1944

16

years

EVERY

Fremont Rider, Wesleyan University Librarian, publishes The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library. He estimates that American university libraries were doubling in size every sixteen years.

X 2

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

1967The “information explosion” noted in recent years makes it essential that storage requirements for all information be kept to a minimum. A fully automatic and rapid three-part compressor which can be used with “any” body of information to greatly reduce slow external storage requirements and to increase the rate of information transmission through a computer is described in this paper.

Automatic Data

Compression

published byB. A. Marron &

Paul de Mainefrom the Abstract

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

1980

“I believe that large amounts of data are being retained because users have no way of identifying obsolete data; the penalties for storing obsolete data are less apparent than are the penalties for discarding potentially useful data.”

I.A. Tjomsland gives the talk titled “Where Do We Go

From Here?”

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

1996

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

Digital storage

becomes more cost-

effective for storing data than paper

VS

1997

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

The term big data is used for the first time in

publication“Application-controlled demand paging for out-of-core visualization”

1998

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

400%

1997 1998 1999 2000

GROWTH RATE OF INTERNET

200%

0%

Data TrafficVoice Trafficb

y2002“The Size and

Growth Rate of the Internet.”

1999

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

≈ 1.5Study finds that in 1999 the world produced

exabytes of unique information

X 250exabytes of unique information

For every man, woman, and child

2001

Volume

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

VelocityVariety

Doug Laney, an analyst with the Meta Group, coins the 3 V’s“3D Data Management: Controlling Data Volume, Velocity, and Variety.”

2002

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

In 2002, digital information

storage surpassed non-digital for the

first time

2005

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

Database management is a

core competency of Web 2.0 companies, so much so that we

have sometimes referred to these applications as

‘infoware’ rather than merely software.”

Tim O’Reilly - “What is Web 2.0”

2011

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

1986 2007

+ 25% per year

“The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information”

99.2% of all storage capacity was analog

94% of storage capacity was

digitalVS

2012

Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com

Big Data is defined in “Critical Questions for Big Data” as a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon that rests on the interplay of:

1. Technology: maximizing computation power and algorithmic accuracy to gather, analyze, link, and compare large data sets

2. Analysis: drawing on large data sets to identify patterns in order to make economic, social, technical, and legal claims.

3. Mythology: the widespread belief that large data sets offer a higher form of intelligence and knowledge that can generate insights that were previously impossible, with the aura of truth, objectivity, and accuracy.

2013

Facts taken from TATA Consultancy Services

SALES

MARKETING

CUSTOMER SERVICE

R&D

ITMANUFACTUR

INGFINANCE

LOGISTICS

HR

15.2%

15%

13.3%

11.3%

11.1%

8.3%

7.7%

6.7%

5%

Where Are Companies Focusing

Big Data

Professionals Who Analyze Big

Data

In an IT FunctionIn Business Functions That Use the DataIn a Separate Big Data Group

2013

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