Big Data: Exploring the Data Frontier 🌐
Discover the vast world of big data and its impact on society in this insightful lesson by Tim Smith.

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609.9K views • May 3, 2013

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There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
Lesson by Tim Smith, animation by TED-Ed.
There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades - stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today.
Lesson by Tim Smith, animation by TED-Ed.
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