Think about this fact: According to Braina 2013 article in Science Daily, “90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years.”
In 2017, the numbers only continue to rise. The amount of data generated via social media is staggering—4 million text messages are sent each minute within the US alone! With massive amounts of data being generated in today’s society, we are forced to think differently about how to process, store, and analyze all of this data.