Big Data: Why Now?
Computers TI 99 4A 1982 ENIAC 1946 Phones 1983 first public cell phone 1915: First U.S. coast-to-coast phone call Over 25 tons, larger than a school bus Needed 160 kilowatts to run or watt light bulbs Needed 5 operators took 23 minutes to set up call Cost $3995 nicknamed "The Brick" 32K RAM 3MHz CPU 300 byte modem ~ 40 lbs. 1GB RAM 1.4 GHz CPU 150 MBps Data 6 ounces 40 Bytes RAM 1 kHz CPU Technological Progress
Last 100 years
Everything’s becoming connected
Lots of data
Facebook Friendships Visualized
The Data gets stored
Big Data Tasks Classification [Predictive] Clustering [Descriptive] Discovery [Descriptive] Deviation Detection [Predictive] Collaborative Filter [Predictive]