Infusion of Big Data Concepts Across the Undergraduate Computer Science Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum

摘要

Stored digital data volume is growing exponentially. Today, there are about 4.4 zettabytes (1 zettabyte is equivalent to 10~(21) bytes) of data in the World and it is expected to be about 44 zettabytes by 2020. Society increasingly relies on such data to tell us things about the world. Recent advances in technology, such as e-commerce, smart phones, and social networking, are the main reason behind this exponential data growth. This large volume of structured and unstructured data is known as "big data". Data is generated every rapidly. For example, in just one second, users are performing 40,000 search queries on Google, sending 520,834 messages on Facebook, and uploading 5 hours of video on YouTube on average.