2015 was quite the year for Big Data news, but as the year is passing away with new, exciting horizons coming, what actually did happen throughout 2015 in the Big Data world? Forbes contributor Bernard Marr has done a month-by-month breakdown of 12 news worthy events, “2015 was the first year that started with more of us using our phones or mobile devices to connect to the Internet than computers or laptops. The number of mobile Internet users worldwide overtook the number of deskbound ones late in 2014, and this change in user behavior has huge implications for how app developers, corporations and even governments will collect data about us.”
In March, “IBM announced that it is to invest $3 billion in Internet of Things technologies over the coming four years. The concept that all devices – not just computers – can talk and share information online, and interact with each other to make our lives easier, continues to be big business throughout 2015 and IBM say that their efforts will be focused on breaking new ground in real time analytics.”
While in July, “Large scale data breaches continued to make headlines after 2014’s record breaking year for corporate data loss and theft. If not the largest, then certainly the one which filled the most column inches, took place in July, when dating site Ashley Maddison was attacked and pillaged. What made this hack so appealing to the press was the nature of the site, which heavily focused its marketing on the potential it offered for infidelity. The potential salaciousness of the stolen data made the story big news, but customers of mobile retailer Carphone Warehouse, crowdfunding site Patreon, telecoms operator T-Mobile, healthcare provider Anthem and credit reference agency Experian fell victim in their millions this year also.”