Is Big Data Getting Too Big?
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[MUSIC] "This episode is brought to you by Lynda.com" [MUSiC] We all use technology but do we understand how it works? Consider a grain of rice. It's not much of a bite, but imagine if it was a byte. Our computers deal in a language of 1s and 0s to store their information and compute their instructions. Eight of these 1 and 0 bits make a byte, and a thousand of those make a kilobyte, and a thousand of those make a megabyte. But today we commonly deal in a currency even larger, like gigabytes and terabytes. Although we don’t even understand how astronomically huge they really are. But consider this: a terabyte of seconds is 32,000 years! We’re quickly moving far beyond these scales to even larger ones, like petabytes, just one of which co...
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[MUSIC] "This episode is brought to you by Lynda.com" [MUSiC] We all use technology but do we understand how it works? Consider a grain of rice. It's not much of a bite, but imagine if it was a byte. Our computers deal in a language of 1s and 0s to store their information and compute their instructions. Eight of these 1 and 0 bits make a byte, and a thousand of those make a kilobyte, and a thousand of those make a megabyte. But today we commonly deal in a currency even larger, like gigabytes and terabytes. Although we don’t even understand how astronomically huge they really are. But consider this: a terabyte of seconds is 32,000 years! We’re quickly moving far beyond these scales to even larger ones, like petabytes, just one of which co...
