From Bits and Bytes to Big Data - An Historical Overview
From Bits and Bytes to Big Data - An Historical Overview
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2020-07-27
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Computation Theory eJournal
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eng
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13 pages
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Nagi, Kuldeep, From Bits and Bytes to Big Data - An Historical Overview (June 9, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3622921, 1-13
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About a century ago the computer revolution started in the USA. Computers and mobile devices have now become an integral part of our lives in the workplace. The first attempts to investigate the data output started in the 1960s on a command prompt blinking on the computer monitor. Later in the 1990s, powerful data mining tools were created to sort and analyze large amounts of data. Now the new technologies and tools such as Big Data Analytics allow us to instantly capture and analyze an enormous amount of personal and institutional data about clients, financial transactions, social networks, and everything else happening online. This paper attempts to provide a fresh insight into the evolution of “data” acquiring such a prominent role and value. It provides a pictorial history using secondary data sources and attempts to provide an overview of current tools, technologies, and trends associated with the evolution of Big Data Analytics.