Nerd Research Minute – July 16 – Wowsa Stats on the Demand for Data
A small data collection on the enormity of the data spectrum
*The demand for data doubles every two years.
Source: https://qz.com/472292/data-is-expected-to-double-every-two-years-for-the-next-decade/
*Each minute, there are 4 million YouTube video views.
Source: https://merchdope.com/youtube-statistics/ and Nat Geo
*The consumption of data resulted in new words to measure it such as petabyte, which is a million gigabytes or 10 to the 15th power or 10,000,000,000,000,000
Source: http://www.bendtechsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Gizmodo-Petabyte.jpg
*3.4 petabytes of data are consumed every 60 seconds.
Source: Nat Geo’s Drain the Oceans
*Let the force be with the Yottabyte which is one septillion bytes and larger than the zettabyte
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