March 17, 2010
Edited and Written by Ira S. Wolfe
Published by Success Performance Solutions. Major Sponsor,
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What's Inside this issue of The TotalView:
1. Decoding Data Deluge
2. Geeks, Geezers and Googlization
1. Decoding Data Deluge
Are you feeling "infowhelmed" these days? It's no wonder. The quantity of information is soaring.
Information is growing at an annual compound rate of over 60 percent. Keeping up with the information is getting more and more difficult. There has always been more information than people can process. But the chasm between the amount of information available and our ability to deal with it is widening.
For instance, man created 150 exabytes of information in 2005. In 2010, we will create 1,200 exabytes of new information. On an average day in 2008, 34 gigabytes bombarded each person. Are you exhausted yet?
How big is an exabyte?
- One page of typed text equals 2 kilobytes.
- The complete works of Shakespeare total 5 Megabtyes.
- One gigabyte equals a pickup truck filled with books.
- All the catalogued books in America's Library of Congress total 15 Terabytes.
- All the letters delivered by American's postal service this year will amount to around 5 petabytes. (Google processes around 1 petabyte every hour!)
- One thousand petabtyes equals 1 exabyte.
- Five exabytes equals 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress.
- By 2013, the amount of traffic flowing over the Internet is expected to exceed 668 exabytes.
Moving forward the business of managing business information will be a critical skill. Limiting the information you receive is simplay not an option if you want to remain competitive. While economic production used to be based in the factory, the new measurement of production will be information output. A new kind of professional will be sought after to manage the data deluge - the data scientist. These new workers will combine the skills of the software programmer, statistician, and storyteller. Their job description: to extract a diamond from the waste.
Is that TMI? (In text lingo, that's "too much information.")
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