Explore speaking: Big data Topic area: Technology Focus: Big data Situation: In your summer internship, you are part of a project team working on the implications of big data for hard- and software. The aim is to produce a general overview of the technology concerned. Individual long turn (4–5 minutes): You are at the first team meeting and have been asked to introduce the topic. You are using the data volume created at the time of the London Olympics in 2012. This was one of the first showcase events that explicitly dealt with big data infrastructure and volume. In your presentation, you should: ■■ give an overview of the key data sources using the illustration below. ■■ speculate about the problems huge data volumes can cause in general. ■■ analyse why big worldwide media events create such data hype. Interaction (8–10 minutes): After your presentation, one of the colleagues from IT comes up to you and asks for a few clarifications. You should: ■■ discuss the technical challenges worldwide sports events create for today’s media and data industry. ■■ analyse what requirements IT hardware will have to meet in the future. ■■ argue about the personal dimension of intensive media coverage of big or even smaller events. 34 200,000 HOURS of big data were generated while testing the IT systems before the Games had even started (the equivalent of 8,333 days of work) 845 MILLION monthly active Facebook users resulting in an average of 15 TB+ of data collected each day during the Games 30% MORE RESULTS DATA were processed during the 2012 London Games than during the 2008 Beijing Games 2,000 HOURS of live sports media coverage (covering every single sport each day of the Games) … 60GB OF INFORMATION PER SECOND flew across British Telecom’s networks (the equivalent of all of Wikipedia every 5 seconds) 14,000+ TV and broadcast stations Keystrokes from many of these devices added to the amount of big data generated during the Summer Games … worldwide tuning in to watch the opening ceremonies … with … … were digitally broadcast to more than … visited the official website of the 2012 Summer Games were connected to the internet in 2012 13,000+ TWEETS PER SECOND were posted to Twitter during the Summer Games 31 Language skills Extras Explore 2 Digital jungle Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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