Benefits of Big Data

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The creativity and ingenious of human beings has enabled the development of technologies that have overall, benefited all of mankind. Arguably one of the most if not the most pivotal man made technological achievement is that of the internet. The internet has allowed for the seeming less transfer of data and information in a matter of seconds. With this innovation has come an increase in communication, enhancement of understanding other cultures, and a mass gathering of data. The amount of data now in existence due to the internet has created the need for big data. Big data has developed as a solution to the traditional computer infrastructure that has become obsolete due to its inability to handle the massive amounts of data now in existence. The benefits of big data are ever expanding and attractive as it can improve the efficiency of companies, research, health sciences yet, the consequences of using big data are just as intensifying and are causing some backlash in many communities. The current issues surrounding big data and the increasingly dependent nature of the world’s people on big data will undoubtedly impact the use of big data in the future.
Despite many people recognizing the power of the internet and the amount of data accessible by the internet these same people are unaware of big data itself. According to Tom Price author of the article titled Big Data and Privacy, “Big data is the collection and analysis of enormous amounts of information by supercomputers” (Price). It is also better known as the way in which the extraction of data is obtained from a plethora of non-traditional sources. Often these sources may involve unstructured data like html, email, and social data. However these sources may also be structu...

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...many parties will do whatever is necessary to obtain such information.
In all, there is an increasing use of big data by a number of different organizations, industries, and people. Many governments, researchers, scientists, and businesses are using big data to obtain information to further their goals. This obtainment of information by these parties is deemed by many as controversial and detrimental to the privacy of individuals. The debate about the use of big data will become more important as more and more information is gathered from a variety of sources. As the more data is collected the less private individual information will be. The topic of big data will grow in popularity as technology advances and more and more data becomes available to a number of different parties.

Works Cited

Price, Tom. "Big Data and Privacy." CQ Researcher (2013): 910-29. Print.

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