GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lenoir, North Carolina, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Gmail
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Large amounts of data have existed for a long time: first censuses go back to ancient egypt, then an avalanche of numbers from the 19th century with the rise of state bureaucracies. Much of this info that we now have is useless. Big data and netlix: house of cards. The bbc version with ian richardson (1990) The netlix version with kevin spacey (2013) Netlix found that subscribers watched bbc original house of cards also watched movies that starred kevin spacey: so netlix produced a new kevin spacey house of. Big data also needs fast data processing. Cards: there has been signiicant improvements since 2000 in the speed at which data can be analysed electronically (the cpu) Not just the amount of data increased. The ability to process has also improved. More data more ease of accessing it. Computer power doubles each year (exponential growth) Everything that a computer does is within its binary system: in its cpu (computer processing unit)