The world is slowly becoming overrun with big data. In a technological era where more things are recorded online than with traditional pen and paper, that’s hardly a surprise. Data comes in many different forms, with more and more of each being produced on a daily basis.
Amazingly, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone. While those numbers sound staggering, it’s perhaps less of a surprise when you consider 2.5 quintillion bytes are now created every day. This figure would require 10 million blu-ray discs to store, which, when stacked atop of each other, would amount to four Eiffel Towers.
This rapid growth in data usage has been a continued trend for some time. Across the last 25 years the global numbers have been very telling:
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1992 – 100GB used a day
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1997 – 100GB used an hour
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2002 – 100GB used a second
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2013 – 28,875GB used a second
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2018 (estimated) – 50,000GB used a second
This continued rise in the amount of data being produced directly corresponds with the availability of the internet across the globe. 3 billion people currently use the internet – as many people as the Earth’s population back in 1960.
Social media has perhaps served as the most prominent cause of this sudden influx, with every minute seeing:
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204,000,000 emails sent
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72 hours of footage uploaded on YouTube
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277,000 Tweets posted
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216,000 Instagram posts made
Want to discover more about big data? Check out the fascinating infographic below for a full rundown of how it’s shaping the world around us.
Infographic courtesy of Vouchercloud
