There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades – stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst ‘solving’ their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN’s involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
Discussions:
Why big data is important in the creation and development of useful databases? What is the connection with business intelligence?
How big data is useful to solve environmental issues?
Link to TED Ed Lesson: http://ed.ted.com/on/ybeUkkuS
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