What Does Big Data Mean in 2018?

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’.

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. read more

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