2012 was the biggest year of deals and saw YoY growth of 19.5% over 2011.
(via Big Data Report)
Source: cbinsights.com
What is Big Data? It is the gathering of unprecedentedly large amounts of digital information generated on the Web and applying sophisticated statistical algorithms to identify new or previously unrecognized trends and predict future behavior.
Other than ‘generated by the Web’ (true, but not exclusively) this is one of the better layman’s definitions of ‘Big Data’ that I’ve read.
Source: startribune.com
