Big data has become a hot topic in the past five years or so, but it has been providing insights for hundreds of years. For example, the first U.S. census was taken in 1790, the Hollerith tabulating machine was created in the late 1880s, and in 1944 Fremont Rider was already envisioning that the Yale Library would have more than 200 million volumes by 2040.
Read this article by Dan Hogan from +LiveScience here
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