Big Data: An Industrial Revolution For The 21st Century [INFOGRAPH]

When anyone calls something “revolutionary,” particularly a critic or journalist, one can practically just smell the rampant sensationalism seeping from their opinion. However, every once in a while a phenomenon is fully deserving of the “revolutionary” title. Although we cannot fully grasp where exactly Big Data will take us as we reach further into this century, we’ve already felt Big Data’s effects in nearly every sphere of human society whether it has been through business, economics, government, or science.

Big Data is certainly a buzzword that’s been bandied about often. What exactly is Big Data? Just as the name implies, “Big Data” is any kind of enormous collection of data that’s too big to process using traditional...