Internet: the Identity Data mine
Over the past two decades, digital communication technologies have changed the way we socialize, think and operate. Today, telecommunication network devices are common in the modern household, classroom, and business. Internet and cellphone-service providers now supply over a third of world with access to its ever-expanding network of websites and digital media
Users have established a sense of trust within their devices and the Internet; we have e-mail addresses, search with Google, socialize on Facebook, tweet on Twitter, and trust websites with our personal information. We blindly accept long 'terms of use' agreements, and pay no attention to 'privacy' or 'data-use policies.' Instead, we project more personalized content into cyberspace; our thoughts, interests, ideas, IP address, credit card information, cell-phone numbers, etc. The information does not disappear; it is collected and compiled into large databases, and your identity becomes a part of what is known as Big Data.
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What is big data?Big Data is generally defined as the accumulation of user information that is collected from digital communication systems. This data can reached exabytes cannot be processed by conventional computer systems, and instead require the computing power of large server systems. Special analytic software such as IBM's SPSS software can crunch down these massive data pools, and produce demographic insight of users on both the macro and micro scale.
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