11 Facts about Big Data That’ll Make You Choose That as Your Career

What is Big Data?

The vast sea of data and information available on computers, mobile devices and other electronic gadgets around the world is known as Big Data. The evolution of Big Data technologies over the years created tools for incredible insights and analysis of Big Data across the globe. The availability of such phenomenal insights and analytics transformed the businesses and taken them to next level.

• Fact #1

The current value of Big Data industry is estimated about 600000 crore Indian rupees (INR).

Research predicted that the value of Big Data industry will be 3400000 crore Indian rupees (INR) in the year 2017.

• Fact #2

The retailing industry needs Big Data analytics and insights to increase their profit up to 60%.

• Fact #3

Projects have been proposed to integrate big data analytics to save up to 1900000 crore rupees (INR) by the Healthcare industry.

• Fact #4

Experts believe that the bits of data existing in the digital world must me more than that of uncountable stars in the universe.

• Fact #5

The average data transferred by mobile networks in a month is around 150 crore GB (gigabytes).

• Fact #6

If we calculate the total area of all the data centers around the world, it is equal to that of 6,000 football grounds.

• Fact #7

If you copy half of data created per day around the world in DVDS, the height of those copied DVD stacks will touch the moon.

• Fact #8

You need your entire lifetime to watch all the YouTube videos uploaded in 2 days and 19 hours.

• Fact #9

More than 350 crore searches were done in Google by the people around the world.

• Fact #10

In a day, 29,376 crore emails were sent, 260 crores Facebook likes, 29 crore Facebook photo uploads and 40 crore twitter tweets are recorded across the globe.

• Fact #11

By 2020, the total digital data of the world would be 1073741824 terabytes (TB).

Career in Big Data industry

Witnessing consistent and double-digit growth, Big Data industry is one of the top trending industries to build a successful career. IT companies in the United States will need additional 6 million IT professionals to accomplish big data projects in the year 2015. Many leading IT companies and training institutes in the United States offers big data training courses with placement assurance. Professionals proficient in Big Data analytics is paid around $145000 as their salary.

The vast sea of data and information available on computers, mobile devices and other electronic gadgets around the world is known as Big Data. The growth of computers & communication systems increased the amount of digital data around the world. Meanwhile, the evolution of computing technologies over the years created tools for incredible insights and analysis of data across the globe. The availability of such phenomenal insights and analytics transformed the businesses and taken them to next level.