According to Nikkei, Japan’s government is creating rules for the use of “industrial big data”. 

The Japanese government will work out rules aimed at promoting the flow of "industrial big data" gathered through products and services, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

According to IT Pro Portal, big data can be used to solve problems within the global food supply chain. 

It is no secret that making intelligent use of big data is one of the most exciting – and important – evolutions in enterprise technology.

Researchers at University of Alabama Birmingham are working with others to use big data to combine all the information regarding Covid-19 into one usable database, reports University of Alabama Birmingham. 

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has joined a nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians and other biomedical researchers aimed at turning data from hundreds of thousands of medical records of coronavirus patients into effective treatments and predictive analytical tools that could help lessen or end the global pandemic.