Brett Parker What is Big Data?

Brett Parker Sap, an expert in the different innovations offered by the fourth industrial revolution, also known as 4IR, tells us more about Big Data.

 

Big Data is massive data analysis. An amount of data, so extremely large, that the data processing software applications that have traditionally been used are not capable of capturing, processing and adding value in a reasonable time.

Likewise, the same term refers to new technologies that make storage and processing possible, in addition to the use made of the information obtained through said technologies.

 

Have you ever wondered what Big Data is and what it is for?

 

We understand as Big Data the amounts of large-scale data that exceed the capacity of conventional software to be captured, processed and stored in a reasonable time.

Brett Parker Sap tells us that the Big Data concept also encompasses the infrastructures, technologies and services that have been created to manage this large amount of information.

 

According to Brett Parker Sap, the amount of data stored in the world is doubling every two years.

The data explosion that we are witnessing is a consequence of the digital revolution and the great adoption by citizens and companies of tools and technologies such as social networks, mobile devices, geolocation, and objects and sensors connected to the Net - the Internet of Things.

Thus, understanding what Big Data is and what it is for implies also knowing the entire context of data generation in which we are participants.

 

To give us an idea, every day we use many devices through which a huge amount of information is emitted: every time we click on a web page, we pay by credit card, we publish images on social networks, we turn on the GPS, etc. All of these (and many more) actions produce massive data that must be processed.

 

We are therefore facing a new revolution that introduces great opportunities and, at the same time, important challenges for our companies- Brett Parker Sap