Saturday 21 March 2015

Making big data smaller

SUMMARY: Data science is the key to unlocking value from big data, but it must be combined with micro-vertical domain expertise, writes Infor president Duncan Angove.

Data is all around us. It’s in the computers we use. It’s in the machines we operate. It’s in a huge pile after a single hospital visit.

Consider:

30 MB of data are required to store an X-ray
150 MB are required to store a single MRI
3 GB are required to store the human genome
660 terabytes are necessary to power a single hospital

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