Info 202 Fall 2011

Whenever I go near Sproul Hall, I grab a copy of The Daily
Californian. I like reading papers I mean “physical” papers when compared to
digital papers. However this post not about my likes or dislikes it is about
the way information is organized on the digital medium. An e-paper gives an
enormous flexibility to organize information. If you visit the website you will
find the “News, Sports, A&E, Opinion, Multimedia and Blogs” categories.

The amount of  the stored data has increased exponentially which can hold lot of value. A proper
usage of this data can help anybody run a very profitable business. The article
by computer world describes this kind of data as “big data”. Computer world
defines big data as the mining of huge sets of structured and unstructured data
for useful insights. According to IBM, classify data as big data it has to meet