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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time. Hi, Brad.
Hey Lulu.
Brad, you are currently in Japan, right？
Correct. I just moved to Japan. I've been here a few months now.
Is that gonna be a long term thing？
Possibly, still I’m a student now, but I am looking for full time work. And so once I figure out that, then I’ll make a move.
So that's just gonna be your new home. And then we're doing this recording remotely, but we're still gonna be talking about geeky or tech-related subjects or topics. And what are we going to talk about today？
I thought we’ll talk about big data.
Big data大数据.
It's one of those things that everyone has heard of, everyone talks about. But if you ask people what exactly is big data, not everyone can actually come up with the definition or not everyone knows the ins and outs of it, right？
It's a little bit difficult to get into.
So first of all, what is big data？
A lot of times when people hear the word “big” like big pharma, things like that, they think of a big company; and big data is not that, big data is just a large amounts of data.
Traditionally, data was very small sets of information that people could put together and sought through, and like find out information about their customers or something like that. But now with the explosion of like being able to store huge amounts of data and sought through larger sets, we get something called big data.
Before, for example, it’s just each store would collect their own data, each business, but now everything is connected.
Correct! Like everything, a lot of people that have data online will trade or sell their data to other people.