Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
The world is looking for big data scientists, and there just aren't enough to go around.
There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
Organizations spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars installing and implementing huge servers, new Web sites and applications. They have to continue to do that, but they also have to clean up the mess of the '90s.
The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.
Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future.
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