The big picture

摘要

Environmental engineering as a profession is central to the debates and the fears about big data - the sudden and dramatic increase in the volume of data that's now potentially available through the technology developments in measurement and instrumentation and the electronic and communications revolutions that affect virtually everything. Commentators at National Instruments believe that what they're calling "Big Analog Data", data from the measurement of physical phenomena, will outweigh in terms of size all other forms of big data. All the Is and Os from business and financial transactions; all the twitterspheres, blogospheres and inanospheres; everything.