View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/exploration-on-the-big-data-frontier-tim-smith There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been...
========== Translator: Andrea McDonough
Reviewer: Jessica RubyBig data is an elusive concept.It represents an amount of digital information,which is uncomfortable to store,transport,or analyze.Big data is so voluminousthat it overwhelms the technologies of the dayand challenges us to create the next generationof data storage tools and techniques.So, big data isn't new.In fact, physicists at CERN have been ranglingwith the challenge of their ever-expanding big data for decades.Fifty years ago, CERN's data could be storedin a single computer.OK, so it wasn't your usual computer,this was a mainframe computerthat filled an entire building.To analyze the data,physicists from around the world traveled to CERNto connect to the enormous machine.In the 1970's...
