What's the biggest #bigdata?

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What's the biggest #bigdata?

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May 9, 2016

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Data science and is often mentioned in the same breath as big data. But how big is big data? And who has the biggest big data? CERN? Youtube?

... Something (or someone) else?

Relevant link: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195

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May 9, 2016

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