Chapter 9. Big Data Machine Learning – The Final Frontier
In recent years, we have seen an exponential growth in data generated by humans and machines. Varied sources, including home sensors, healthcare-related monitoring devices, news feeds, conversations on social media, images, and worldwide commerce transactions—an endless list—contribute to the vast volumes of data generated every day.
Facebook had 1.28 billion daily active users in March 2017 sharing close to four million pieces of unstructured information as text, images, URLs, news, and videos (Source: Facebook). 1.3 billion Twitter users share approximately 500 million tweets a day (Source: Twitter). Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in lights, thermostats, sensor in cars, watches, smart devices, and so on, will grow from 50 billion to 200 billion by 2020 (Source: IDC estimates). YouTube users upload 300 hours of new video content every five minutes. Netflix has 30 million viewers who stream 77,000...