Said Business School’s GOTO Community has put together an interesting 12 minute video on the topic of Big Data and how it affects us all.

GOTO (Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford) aims to address complex global issues with innovative business ideas.  This year Big Data will be one of the communities core topics.

There is an overwhelming magnitude of data constantly being collected in Today’s world, as emphasised by the following statements from the video:

• 90% of the data today has been created in the last 2 years.
• Google receives over 2 million search requests every minute
• 284166667 emails are sent every minute
• Facebook users share 684478 pieces of content every minute