Tag Archives: big data

Back in 2015 (a age ago) an article by the World Economic Forum listed the measuring stick for data quantity. So they started with kB (1,000 bytes) and moved up to reach the ExaBytes – a billion of GB-, the ZettaBytes – 1,000 of EB- and then the YottaBytes – …

In terms of economic value tied to data and knowledge a perfect storm is on the horizon created by the convergence of: explosion of data availability, both in the general context and in the private one. The former relates to academia and open research, news, social media, product/service information (data …

Once Leveraging on Data The Digital Transformation accelerates the generation of data and companies are learning to capitalise on those data, sometimes clashing with fuzzy regulation and unclear definition of ownership. Take the example of Tesla. Tesla have been designed through computer modelling and this process generates a digital model …

Social Media The variety of data that are harvested by social media is huge and their quantity is staggering. In social media, much more than in any other funnel of data gathering, the key factor is the correlation of data. It is not as much about what you are sharing …

Photography I was born in the age of film rolls. There were rolls with film for 12, 20 and 36 shots and before shooting a shot you always asked: “will it be worth it? Should I wait for a better opportunity?” The peak of film photography was in 2001 with …

I was interviewed yesterday by a journalist that was getting confused, as – most likely- his readers, on the cacophony on apps to trace Covid-19. There are quite a few of them around and apparently many more are coming. Is it because the ones out there are not good? Because …

Intelligence The huge, growing amount of data we have available, is powering data analytics and artificial intelligence is taking advantage of that. Notice how Digital Twins have “embedded” some of the Vs characterising big data: Volume: the volume of data aggregated in a digital twin varies considerably depending on the …

What about starting from scratch to create a Digital Platform that could succeed?  As stated it has to have the following characteristics: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to let third parties develop on …

The amount of investment in start ups focussing on Digital Health has kept growing in the last years and, interestingly, we are seeing recurring investment on the same companies indicating that it is no longer a widespread distribution “just in case”, rather a continuous investment on few companies that show …

I started this series of posts on the Digital Transformation of Health Care pointing out at the three looming disruptions ahead: de-localisation, personalisation and digitalisation. These correspond, broadly speaking to the area of Digital Health, Precision Health and Big Data, even though these areas are connected with one another as …