The oil and gas industry has fully embraced using big data in all aspects of its business, reports Rig Zone.

Conventional logic would dictate that retailers and service firms might be among the most nervous adopters of the concept of storing their data off-site on partners’ third-party infrastructure, given the number of high profile breaches we have seen over the years.

According to ZD Net, a pharma company is using big data to map cells in the body. 

Whenever machine learning is applied to a given field of industry, defining the objective is one of the most salient questions. Just what are you trying to find out?

Our world is increasingly ruled by big data, reports Forbes. In fact, predictions have 1.7MB data will be created per second by every living human.

We live in a world ruled by data. One study predicts that by 2020, 1.7 MB of data will be created every second for every person on earth. In other words, it’s officially the age of Big Data, and it’s only going to become even more expansive in the years to come.