At the moment there are more than 1 billion Facebook users, of which around 850 million are active on a monthly basis. There are more than 100 billion connections and each day gives us 2.7 billion new likes. Twitter has 500 million users and 180 million tweets are sent every day. Approximately 100 million Twitter users are active on a monthly basis. Linkedin has 200 million … [Read more...] about The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
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The Big Data Trends for 2013
A lot has been written already about Big Data trends for 2013 and here at Datafloq we want to add a few that we believe will be important for 2013. According to the Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle published by Gartner in the summer of 2012, the trend Big Data has just entered the Peak of Inflated Expectations, meaning that everyone expects everything from Big Data. Gartner has … [Read more...] about The Big Data Trends for 2013
The Big data Open Source Landscape Is Growing Rapidly.
Although Big Data Startups reviews startups who deal with big data and who sell licensed products, it is important to note that the landscape of open source tools is growing rapidly as well. They have proven to be efficient and cost-effective in getting big data stored, analysed and visualised. Open source data and open source products are no longer as risky as they used to be, … [Read more...] about The Big data Open Source Landscape Is Growing Rapidly.
A Short History Of Big Data
90% of the available data has been created in the last two years and the term Big Data has been around 2005, when it was launched by OReilly Media in 2005. However, the usage of Big Data and the need to understand all available data has been around much longer. In fact, the earliest records of using data to track and control businesses date back from 7.000 years ago when … [Read more...] about A Short History Of Big Data
Five Different Types of Big Data Analyses
Big data is coming and more and more startups are getting involved in Big Data analysis and are developing products that can help companies and consumers to turn Big Data into information. There are several types of analysis that can be done and each with a different impact or result. Recommender Systems We know recommendations from large web shops such as Amazon.com who … [Read more...] about Five Different Types of Big Data Analyses
