CurrentTrends in Biomedical Engineering & Biosciences Juniper Publishers Authored by Richard Boire Mini Review In order to better understand the theme in the above title, it is important to observe how analytics has evolved very quickly over the last few years. The most significant development, that has altered the analytics landscape, is the ability to consume and analyze much more data such as mobile, social media, and sensor data. This capability was achieved through the adoption of parallel data processing technologies such as Hadoop and its underlying Map Reduce software. To give you some perspective on these growing data volumes, here are some stats as revealed in Forbes magazine: I. 1.7 megabytes of information will be created every second by each human being on the planet by the year 2020 II. Data will grow from 4.4 zettabyets today to around 44 zettabytes or 44 trillion gigabytes, a ten fold increase by 2020 (Figure 1). But what is really driving...
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