What Does Big Data Mean in 2018?
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However, another trend emerged during 2017 that runs almost counter to the above: as this site noted in a round-up of emerging trends at the end of last year, the concept of big data itself arguably ceased to be news at all. Between 2017’s constant talk of smart home products, smart customer analytics and service, smart production line hardware and smart logistics solutions, we became inured to those once-newsworthy statistics about the sheer volume of information. Read more
Big data was still big news for much of 2017, thanks in part to the accelerated growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). The proliferation of smart devices we saw being put to practical use last year – at both consumer and business level – meant we were constantly being reminded of the speed at which big data was, in layman’s terms, getting ‘bigger’.
