The Big Bang of Data – Towards Data Science

As technology advances, the amount of data that is being created is growing at a rapid pace. Where throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s most data that was being collected was structured and placed in databases, emerging technologies like the internet, mobile phones and smart devices, are generating more data than ever before. In 2013, IBM wrote that each day 2.5 quintillion bytes are created, and it is estimated that 40 Zettabytes of data will have been created by 2020. But just as the Volume of Data is rapidly increasing, so is the Variety of Data. Everything from emails, tweets, images, video and music, are now digital and being stored not just on local devices but more and more in the Cloud.