Big data played a big part in helping Taiwain mitigate the spread of Covid-19, reports IEEE Spectrum.

In late January, as the novel coronavirus began spreading through China, computer scientists modeling the outbreak ranked Taiwan the region with the second highest risk of importation of the virus.

Big data in healthcare could mean more personalized treatments and shift care from treatment to prevention, reports Health Europe.

In the US alone, healthcare costs are surging. In 2017, the spending amounted to $3.5 trillion (€3.2 trillion), with the average hospital stay day valued at $3,949 (€3,658), and the average hospital stay costs at $15,734 (€14,577).

The U.S. military is generating more big data than it can possibly begin to use, reports War of the Rocks. 

How can you beat an adversary without overpowering them? One strategy is to overwhelm it with information. The Russian government has successfully executed several cyber attacks against European countries in the past decade that did exactly that, most notably against Ukraine as part of a coordinated ground attack to seize Crimea in 2014.