It’s good to be back blogging! I’ve been buried for the past month finishing a book I’m co-authoring on 3D printing (called Fabricated — it’s due out in February because it takes the publisher 3 months — yes 3 months! — to format an ebook). I am writing an SBIR commercialization plan for a tech startup (data analytics software) in Boston. I can’t say enough good things about the SBIR program and the process of applying for Round I and Round II funds. But I’ll write about that later.
Lately I’ve been researching the Big Data marketplace. Big data is the new natural resource. Here’s some interesting facts:
- The amount of new data created in the past twelve months alone would fill up 57 billion Apple iPads (according to IDC)
- Each year, the projected growth of global data generated each year is estimated to increase at the rate of 40% per year
- The human mind isn’t equipped for so much data — it can only handle about seven pieces of information in its short-term memory (as calculated by researcher George Miller in a March, 1956 article in Psychological Review)
To read the full, original article click on this link: Navigating an ocean of Big Data
