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25Need-to-Know
Facts
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Fact1
Every 2 days we create as much
information as we did from the beginning of
time until 2003 [Source]
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Over 90% of all the data in the world was created in the past 2
years.
[Source]
Fact2
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Fact3
It is expected that by 2020 the amount of digital
information in existence will have
grown from 3.2 zettabytes today to
40 zettabytes. [Source]
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The total amount of data being captured
and stored by industry doubles every 1.2
years
[Source]
Fact4
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Fact5
Every minute we send 204 million emails, generate 1,8
million Facebook likes, send 278 thousand Tweets, and up-load 200,000 photos to
Facebook [Source]
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Google alone processes on average
over 40 thousand search queries per second, making it
over 3.5 billion in a single day.
[Source]
Fact6
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Fact7
Around 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute and it would take you
around 15 years to watch every video
uploaded by users in one day.
[Source]
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Facebook users share 30 billion pieces
of content between them every day.
[Source]
Fact8
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Fact9
If you burned all of the data created in just one day onto
DVDs, you could stack them on top of each other and reach the
moon – twice.
[Source]
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AT&T is thought to hold the world’s
largest volume of data in one unique
database – its phone records database is
312 terabytes in size, and contains almost 2
trillion rows. [Source]
Fact10
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Fact11
1.570 new
websites spring into existence every
minute of every day.[Source]
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1.9 million IT jobs will be
created in the US by 2015 to carry out big data
projects. Each of those will be supported by 3 new jobs created outside of IT –
meaning a total of 6 million new jobs thanks to
big data. [Source]
Fact12
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Fact13
Today’s data centres occupy an area of
land equal in size to almost 6,000 football
fields.
[Source]
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Between them, companies monitoring
Twitter to measure “sentiment” analyze
12 terabytes of tweets every day.
[Source]
Fact14
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Fact15
The amount of data transferred over mobile networks increased by 81% to 1.5 exabytes
(1.5 billion gigabytes) per month between 2012 and 2014. Video accounts for
53% of that total. [Source]
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The NSA is thought to analyze 1.6% of all
global internet traffic – around 30 petabytes (30 million gigabytes)
every day [Source]
Fact16
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Fact17
The value of the Hadoop market is
expected to soar from $2 billion in 2013 to $50 billion by 2020, according to market research firm Allied Market Research. [
Source]
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The number of Bits of information stored in the digital
universe is thought to have exceeded the
number of stars in the physical universe in
2007. [Source]
Fact18
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Fact19
This year, there will be over 1.2
billion smart phones in the world (which are
stuffed full of sensors and data collection features),
and the growth is predicted to continue. [
Source]
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The boom of the Internet of Things
will mean that the amount of devices connected to the Internet will rise from about 13 billion today to
50 billion by 2020. [Source]
Fact20
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Fact21
12 million RFID tags – used to capture data and
track movement of objects in the physical world – had been sold in by 2011. By 2021, it is
estimated that number will have risen to 209 billion as the Internet of Things takes
off. [Source]
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Big data has been used to predict crimes before they happen – a
“predictive policing” trial in California was able to identify areas where crime will occur three times more accurately
than existing methods of forecasting.
[Source]
Fact22
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Fact23
By better integrating big data analytics into
healthcare, the industry could save $300bn a year –
that’s the equivalent of reducing the healthcare
costs of every man, woman and child
by $1,000 a year. [Source]
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Retailers could increase their profit
margins by more than 60% through the full exploitation of big
data analytics.
[Source]
Fact24
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Fact25
The big data industry is expected to grow
from US$10.2 billion in 2013 to about US$54.3
billion by 2017.
[Source]
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