Introduction to big data
Man has been generating data for quite a long time. The method of storing data has changed from physical to electronic. But as the method of storing data changes, man still continues to store data in different forms and tell stories in different ways, across different geographies, cultures, beliefs, and traditions. From words to symbols and figures to represent data, we have been storing information for thousands of years. We usually only used to reference this data in the future if we needed to go back to something or validate something that we had stored in the past. It could also be used to gain a knowledge of things in the past. But storing data was done for various reasons.
Just before the digital age arrived, we started seeing this data life cycle in another light. Mathematicians could take numbers and data and create some interesting interpretations and draw interesting perceptions based on the data collected and how it is represented. Fast-forward...