Skip to 0 minutes and 25 seconds Nearly every historical period may be said to have had sources of data that were considered big for that time. Books, documents, drawings, maps and paintings are examples of such data. Yet it is only today that we have to deal with really big data. Luckily, more and more data is digital, but expressed in different formats. Large-scale scientific instruments, social network platforms, cloud solutions, digital cultural heritage are only a few examples of sources of huge amount of text, photo, video and audio materials which are considered big data.
Skip to 0 minutes and 55 seconds But questions related to data have not changed much: how to store and maintain it, how to understand and how to learn from the data for an improved response in the future. These issues necessarily involve the use of high performance computers. Distributed storage and parallel computing need be considered to avoid loss of data and to make computations efficient.
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