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Where is all the data coming from?

Where is all the data coming from?

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Where is all the data coming from?

- Numerous technology trends are also driving the transformation of business models across a range of verticals. We're in the process right now of giving the world a digital nervous system made up of cognitive objects, what we're calling the Internet of Things. In the last two decades, more than six billion devices have come online. And by the end of this year, different surveys project this number to be somewhere between 26 billion and 100 billion. That's an astounding number of devices. Collectively, the IoT today generates more than two and a half quintillion bytes of data daily. This ever-expanding footprint, with IP addresses assigned to everything from vehicles, to clothing, to appliances will drive the need for smart collection and strategic analysis of myriad data sources coming from unlikely settings. Healthcare backend systems now leverage data science to capture patient information and electronic health records,…

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