Many of us work with and talk about data sizes and quantities
daily: I need to see what is inside this 2GB PST file I received; I have
a camera with a 4GB card of pictures I want to copy; I want to print
those 400 PDF documents. But do we truly know what the data
sizes represent?
The following approximated examples of data sizes may
provide some helpful perspective:
Sources: Pew Research Center, EMC,
International Data Corporation, "Big
Data Meets Big Data Analytics" by SAS,
www.whatsabyte.com
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OLD AND NEW SOURCES OF DATA
Do you remember your first computer? I bet some of you have an
old Commodore 64 sitting on a shelf somewhere. My first computer
was a Pentium I with 32MB of memory and a 2GB hard drive, and
it came with Windows 98. I remember grinning from ear-to-ear
because I was hip and had the latest and greatest computer. Oh, the
good ol' days!
