Big data is disrupting many industries by generating and analyzing large amounts of data from diverse sources, enabling new products and services. Uber and Airbnb have disrupted transportation and hospitality by leveraging big data, while Waze uses traffic data. Sensors are now everywhere and producing huge amounts of scalable data that can create value by addressing real problems. Companies should capture data from all activities, use diverse sources, solve core issues, and retain data for unanticipated future uses.

1. Opportunities in Big Data

3. Uber
disrupting the taxi industry worldwide

4. airbnb
disrupting the hotel industry

5. Waze
disrupting traffic management

6. ...

7. Sensors are everywhere…

8. …and generating a tremendous
amount of data…

9. … that can be scalably processed & stored
with new cost effective infrastructures

10. More signals are
generated…

11. … people have more data …

12. …enabling new products and services.

13. Big Data is transforming our lives

14. RecentTrends of Magnitude

15. Big Data Overall Revenue
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16. 4 Things to Remember
How do you generate and capture data from
everything that you do?
Use more diverse data, not just more data (use
data from multiple sources)
Address a real pain point –Think about you core
problems and how data can create value
Data has value far beyond what you originally
anticipate – don’t throw it away!