1. Target was able to determine that a teenage girl was pregnant by analyzing her purchase history and comparing it to patterns they had observed in data from thousands of other customers. They noticed she was purchasing items on their list of the top 25 products commonly bought early in pregnancy. 2. Healthcare organizations are generating vast amounts of data from sources like medical records, prescriptions, reports, and monitoring devices. The average hospital will produce over 2 petabytes of patient data per year by 2015. 3. Big data analytics can be used in healthcare for applications like real-time remote patient monitoring, tracking disease spread through epidemiology, and analyzing personal health and activity data from devices.